Set in a time before psychiatric hospitals, families often confined mentally ill members, only providing basic care.
A journalist from China Daily first reported on a married woman with the last name Huang who was said to have gone mad after her husband abandoned her, leading her to be confined and mistreated in a Buddhist temple.
[2] During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, an orphan (Hsiao Yen-Chiu) sold herself to cover her mother's burial costs, only to be sexually assaulted by her adoptive father.
After a newspaper reported her story, concerned members of society intervened and had her rescued, transferring her to a relief institution for treatment.
[5] The film was written and directed by Bai Ke [zh], originally titled Eighteen Years of Hell on Earth (Chinese: 十八年人間地獄; pinyin: Shíbā nián rénjiān dìyù).
'Mom loves me again/Mom is the only one good in the world') stars Li Xiaofei (Chinese: 李小飛) as a young psychiatrist who meets his lost birth mother in the hospital.
2008: Yun Niang (Chinese: 芸娘; pinyin: Yún niáng) is a 32-episode television series produced in Mainland China in the style of Chiung Yao.