To Live Is Better Than To Die (2003)

In the 1990s HIVAIDS came to Wenlou through a blood purchasing program To supplement their income many poor villagers sold their blood and 60 of those who sold blood contracted HIVAIDS from unsanitary equipment Many have died from the disease In his documentary film To Live is Better than to Die Wiejun Chen tells of the impact AIDS has had in parts of rural China by showing how it has affected the Ma family It is spring when the film takes up the familys story