Chengdu, Sichuan. Rebellious pub singer Nanfeng (Fan Bingbing) leaves her family to pursue a free and independent life. Together with her friends Ding Bo (Wilson Chen) and Soap (Fei Long), they rent rooms from Chang Yueqin (Sylvia Chang), a retired P...
After being abandoned by her husband twelve years earlier, Jen (Sylvia Chang) raised her three sons alone. She uses her mother's secret Hainan Chicken Rice recipe and opened a restaurant to support the family. Her two older sons, Daniel and Harry are...
The novel itself is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of the extended Jia Clan, made up of two branches, the Ning-guo and Rong-guo Houses, which occupies two large adjacent family compounds in the capital. Their ancestors were made Dukes, and ...