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Grandma's Hairpin

Grandma's Hairpin

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 30, 2000

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

銀簪子

Director

Hsiao Chu-chen

Description

In 1949, the KMT government retreated from Mainland China to Taiwan, bringing along an army of 600,000 people. The director’s father was one of them. They thought they would be returning to the Mainland before long but ended up waiting for forty years. A hairpin belonging to the director’s grandmother allows her to walk into her father’s world, and to discover the memories of these old veterans.