The Comprador's House

This film (drama)Also known as买办之家，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2003Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin/Chinese，Current Douban rating7.0(For reference only)。

Plot Introduction The 20-episode TV series "The Comprador's House" is set in Tianjin, where Chinese and Western cultures mingled at the end of the 19th century. It presents a panoramic depiction of a comprador family and its extensive social relations, showcasing the historical upheavals and the fate changes of ordinary people a century ago. Young patriotic student Yu Zipeng, with the ideal of saving the nation through industry, returns to his homeland and encounters the beautiful Japanese girl Zhi Zi on the ship home. The lovers seem to embark on a tragic love story from the very beginning... Upon his return, Yu Zipeng faces bloody turmoil: he witnesses his progressive younger brother Yu Zisu bird participating in an assassination; during his father's sixtieth birthday, their family is subjected to government search; his former lover Su Boyuan (Xia He) is missing; and his brother-in-law Tang Runqing, a comprador, is wanted by authorities due to legal troubles... In this stormy situation, under the orders of Li Hongzhang, Yu Longtai endures humiliation to work under Miss Zhi Zi at the Longjinyang firm in Japan as a comprador, while his son Yu Zipeng, invited by the British, enthusiastically goes to work for Weng Tong Trading Company in the UK as a comprador. Their actions not only draw disdain from their eldest son Yu Zikun, an extremely contemptuous intellectual from the feudal Chinese society, but also face fierce opposition from the revolutionary-minded younger brother Yu Zisu bird. The third brother, Yu Zihe, seems indifferent, preoccupied with pleasures of life. Ultimately, Yu Longtai dies regretfully, and Zhi Zi returns to Japan in sorrow. Although Xia He has a childhood bond with Yu Zipeng and is destined to be with him, they cannot recognize each other due to her fall into disgrace. In the end, she commits suicide to avoid being humiliated by the Japanese. Only Yu Zipeng, an emerging national industrial entrepreneur, is on the rise. This narrative is filled with intense conflicts between the new and the old, between Chinese and Western, love and hate, blood and tears, darkness and light, progress and decay, as well as the struggles in both the political and business arenas, weaving a story that is both complex and evocative.