Results for Middle-aged Chinese American Female Protagonists
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After losing her mother, a young Chinese American girl in New York City struggles to keep the rest of family together and grapples with the loneliness of being the less-loved daughter.
A Chinese-American sweatshop worker in New York City falls in love with a prostitute and urges her to quit sex work. The couple must figure out how to escape their former lives and financial debts.
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.
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.
A young Chinese-American girl deals with her delusional and manipulative grandmother when her grandmother visits from China.
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.
When a Chinese American female triathlete dates a Burmese man, she does so because she wants sex. But when the man starts to make her feel happy, she pulls away, caring more about her own sexual satisfaction than the man's emotions or her own.
As the People's Liberation Army ravages China, a resentful young woman charged with a strange mission leaves home to work in the city. Once there, she discovers terrifying connections between her rich new employer and the village she left behind.
In 1952, stifled by a cruel employer and the unfamiliarity of her new life in America, a Chinese immigrant decides to take matters into her own hands.
A Chinese man adopts the daughter of a deceased close friend. As she turns 23, he is determined to find her a husband. When the man she marries is revealed to be gay, their marriage stirs outrage and dismay, upending traditional Chinese conservative perspectives on gender norms, marriage, and sexuality.