 Author Madeleine Thien quotes from the poem in the closing pages of her award-winning 2016 novel, "Do Not Say We Have Nothing".The 2005 Hong Kong film, "Everlasting Regret", shares the exact same title as the poem (長恨歌), but tells a story about a woman's turbulent life in 20th century Shanghai.The poem is central to the plot of "Legend of the Demon Cat".