Jade Eye - The Life of a Chinese Peasant Boy

Paradise Palace is an unlikely name for a small village in northern China, where a scattering of peasants live a life that has seen little change for millennia. Home to Li Chun-ying and his family, this village, as well as thousands like it, soon find themselves swept by the `winds of change' as Japanese occupation, and then the Communist Party led by Chairman Mao, transform China and its people forever...