... the family and discusses how such opportunities were subordinate to male social ethics. household managers women workers Hakka Kin Tye Lung Chaoshan Chen Ta Chao Zhou Land marriage Shantou daughter in law cross stitching embroidery joss paper making poverty chastity women image of shipping...

...Chapter 4 examines the didactic message promoted by Hong Kong’s left-leaning Cantonese filmmakers (including the Union, Xinlian, Overseas Chinese and Hualian) through their lunlipian (Family melodrama or social ethics films). In particular, I argue that the pedagogical work...