Maidens' Vow (2006)

Original title

鳳凰四重奏

Genre

drama television series

Country

Hong Kong

Length

1 season, 30 episodes

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series follows four generations of women from the same family across different time periods in Chinese history. Each segment shows how each woman navigates the social expectations and personal struggles of her era.

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What happens

Maidens' Vow (Traditional Chinese: 鳳凰四重奏) is a TVB drama series broadcast in August 2006. It won acclaim for its unique format of depicting four different generations of the same lineage, depicting distinctly different cultural and historical settings: the patriarchal late Qing dynasty, the Chinese revolutionary era, the 1970s Hong Kong, and the modern day 2000s Hong Kong. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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