Plot introduction The story of the 20-episode TV series "Comprador House" takes place in Tianjin, Gyeonggi Province, where Chinese and Western cultures blended at the end of the 19th century. Through a panoramic description of a comprador family and its extensive social relationships, the whole drama shows the historical events of 100 years ago and the changes in the fate of all living beings. Yu Zipeng, a full-blooded patriotic young man studying abroad, returns to his motherland with the ideal of saving the country through industry. On the ship returning home, he meets the young and beautiful Japanese girl Tomoko. Lovers who fall in love at first sight seem to embark on a path of love tragedy from the beginning... At the beginning of his return, Yu Zipeng faced a bloody storm: on the dock, he witnessed the assassination of his fourth brother Yu Zi Suniao, who was a progressive young man; when his father Yu Longtai's 60th birthday, his mansion was raided by the government; his former lover Su Boyuan (Xia He)'s life and death were uncertain; his brother-in-law Tang Runqing, who was a comprador, was involved in a lawsuit and was being arrested by the government... At this turbulent time, under the order of Li Hongzhang, his father Yu Longtai endured the humiliation and went to work for Miss Tomoko of Japan's Ryukin Bank. Invited by the British, his son Yu Zipeng ambitiously went to Britain to work as a comprador under the British Huitong Bank Steele. Their behavior was not only despised by the eldest son Yu Zikun, an orthodox intellectual in China's feudal society who extremely despised "barbarians", but also
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