In the magical Ancient Chinese world of astrology, a candyman with a knack for communicating with the zodiac animal spirits must lift a curse on his friend's teahouse by settling a dispute concerning the emperor's prized missing tea between two animal spirits.

In a world brimming with magical realism, a young girl in Communist China confronts a malicious member of the Red Guard when he threatens her ailing grandmother.

As a Chinese-American widower and professor of philosophy contemplates the life he has provided his two daughters, he recalls a traumatic memory from his youth as a delivery boy for a Chinese restaurant, riding through the dangerous streets of New York City.

In the lively afterlife, filled with fish spas and jovial friends, the Mrs. Lim is given a second chance to live. That changes when she receives a gift from her daughter.

A Japanese businessman reflects on his experience with Chinese people and longs to visit China.

Accompanied by her new American husband, a fox (demon) spirit from China moves to Brooklyn, New York where she must navigate the social scene with his over-bearing friends while dealing with painful memories and feelings of loss, loneliness and aimlessness in her new environment.

A white American man and a Chinese-American woman visit the woman's family in China. After the woman's cousin compares the woman's Chinese to a toddler's, she stops speaking English and decides she wants to stay in China for awhile before returning, to reconnect with her family and her place of birth. Upon returning to the United States alone, the man, initially disinterested and unmotivated, begins to learn Chinese.

Young woman recounts her childhood growing up in China in the 1970s and meeting the old maid that the village has ostracized, this encounter forever changes her.

An old (76) man returns to his hometown in China after 66 years, to find that his mother has just passed away. With fanciful ideas of his assured prosperity in America, the village women seek to marry the old man.

A young Chinese girl gets possessed by Jesus and her "stigmata" shocks her entire village.