The Jade Pendant

2017 · ⭐ 6.3 · Votes: 4

“Love and loss in America”

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.