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Thousand Pieces of Gold is a 1991 Western film starring Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Dennis Dun and Michael Paul Chan, and is directed by Nancy Kelly. The film is based on a novel of the same name.
Nov 1, 1991 · A 1990 romance western based on the true story of China Polly, a Chinese immigrant woman in 1880s Idaho. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, photos and more on IMDb.
In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals.
Thousand Pieces of Gold is a 1981 historical novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and based on the life of Polly Bemis, a 19th-century Chinese immigrant woman in the American Old West. In 1991, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name.
YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 14. The real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. ...more.
Set in the 1880s, this film chronicles the journey of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a Chinese woman whose financially desperate family sells her as a bride. She is sent to the...
Nov 8, 1991 · Thousand Pieces Of Gold. Roger Ebert November 08, 1991. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. For some measure of the progress of women, consider "1000 Pieces of Gold," set in the 19th century and telling the story of a Chinese woman sold from man to man as if she were property.
