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The Jade Pendant

2017

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The Jade Pendant

Genre: DramaHistory

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Runtime: 106 min

Average vote: 6

Release date: 2017-10-24

Production Countries: US, HK

Director: Leong Po-Chih

Plot:

Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.

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