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Moment in Peking

1988 television series

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Moment in Peking is a 1988 Taiwanese TV series produced by Chinese Television System, based on Lin Yutang's 1939 English-language novel of the same name, set in Peking (Beijing) in the first half of the 20th century.

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Cast

Angie Chiu as Yao Mulan

Ouyang Lung as Tseng Sunya

Lin Tzay-peir as Kung Lifu

Chao Chia-jung as Yao Mochow

Fu Lei as Yao Sze-an

Wu Ching-hsien as Mrs. Yao

Lee Lee-feng as Cassia

Wen Shuai as Tseng Chinya

Tseng Ya-chun as Sun Manni

Chang Feng as Mr. Tseng

Awards and nominations

1989 Golden Bell Awards

Won—Best Television Series

Won—Best Actress (Lee Lee-feng)

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Notable quotes

“When you yourself are right, nothing that happens to you can ever be wrong.”
— Chapter 1
“Everything has its destined owner. How many hundred owners do you think those Chou bronzes have had in the last three thousand years? No one ever permanently owns a thing in this world.”
— Chapter 1
“All life was the result of two forces—centrality and eccentricity. Without eccentricity, there would be no progress, and without centrality there would be no stability. Man's life results from the harmonious complementing of these two opposite principles, like the inter-breeding of the yin and yang which produces the four seasons of the year.”
— Chapter 13
“Better than all medicine is the ability to take things lightly.”
— Chapter 27
“[My father] always said that luck was something inside the character of a man. For one qualified for luck, jars of water will turn into silver; for one unqualified, jars of silver will turn into water.”
— Chapter 42
“The true people of China are rooted in the soil that they love. She stepped into her place among them.”
— Chapter 45

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