A family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price. The Tibetan nomad mastiff is an exotic prize dog in China, fetching as much as millions of dollars from wealthy Chinese. When a young man notices several thefts of mastiffs from Tibetan farm families, he decides to sell his family's dog before it is stolen and sold on the black market. His father, an aging Tibetan herder, is furious when...

In order to save their daughter, who is suffering from cancer of the blood, a divorced couple must have another child. As both have remarried, they must put their current relationships in jeopardy to test their love and commitment to one another.

"Lu Yanshi, a gifted scholar, was born into a Shanghai family of high social status. After the passing of his father, his stepmother used persuasive tactics to convince him to marry her niece Feng Wanyu. Entering into this relationship without an adequate foundation of love, Lu Yanshi abruptly departed, choosing to study abroad. After graduation and his return to China, Lu reentered his estranged family life, learning to fuction between his cunning...

"Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China--political, cultural, and economic--has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held expectations. Transforming Patriarchy explores the private and public dimensions of these changes in present-day China. Patriarchy is not dead, but it is...