Introduced by Chris Berry

(Xiyan). Winston Chao stars in this global hit farce as a successful gay Taiwanese American businessman, happily settled with his lover in New York but hassled to marry by his parents back home in Taipei. Getting them off his case by contracting an arranged marriage with a mainland Chinese woman friend who needs a green card seems like a good idea-until they decide to come over for the wedding. Ang Lee's deftly handled breakthrough film revives the traditions of Chinese film melodramas, where we empathize with the agonies of all the members of the family. Not only a film about sexuality, it is also a race drama, because Chao's boyfriend is white. This open–minded film suited Taiwan's effort to update its global image in the late eighties and early nineties from right–wing military dictatorship to Asia's most plural and liberal democracy.