Kun-Hou Chen

Growing Up tells the story of a reunited family: a man of the Chinese mainland and indigenous Taiwanese woman. Meanwhile, it proposes a number of social issues on the agenda - juvenile delinquency, the change of generations, the relationship between immigrants from the mainland and the locals - which adds to the split of Taiwanese identity. (KG)

The hostess of a tea house bought a girl for touting, but her virtuous son releases the girl. (mubi.com)

Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about poverty. Based upon her famous clever hands at embroidery and three-inch lilies, her feet deformed by foot-binding, she is married into a rich family. But fate doesn't change, she becomes a widow at twenty-three, and that year her son is only five. In her thirtieth year, she finally defeats all her elders and becomes the Mistress of a family. (L.H. Wong)