San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into the 1990s, about a young orphan boy struggling with life in Shanghai.

In a small village in China's Yunnan province, the romance between Ashima and Ahei is threatened by the interference of the heir to a powerful clan.

Set in 1979, a high rank navy political commissar's daughter's marriage creates trouble.

The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhen Fei.