1952 was Yueh’s “Red Year”, with two movies about the eve of Liberation (Modern Red Chamber Dream and The Stormy Night), and Nyonyah about the breakup of an archaic marriage arrangement still in practice in southern China. Shortly after the birth of new China, teacher Binghong (Yan Jun) and his wife Yongfen (Hsia Moon) returned home from Southeast Asia and discovered that his parents had already arranged him a marriage to his cousin, making him a husband to two wives. With the help of an open-minded school principal, they were able to break free from such absurdity. Yueh skilfully merged political education into his female genre. Binghong’s mother and his cousin were both the enforcers and victims of an exploited tradition, proving the need of liberation. The sunless and confined environment of the studio set constituted a depressing mood of enslavement. The purpose of having a Nyonyah character (born with Chinese and Malay parents) is not just simply an add on of Malay exotic elements, but more an encouraging note to mobilize Nanyang expatriates to return to serve their motherland.