Back in his native Goose Village, his parents arranged his marriage to the peasantwoman Shuyu so that they would have someone to nurse them through their final illnesses while Lin pursued his medical career far away in the army.
Polanski has been nominated for Oscars for directing "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Chinatown" (1974) and "Tess" (1980), an adaptation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles, " the Thomas Hardy novel about a young peasantwoman whose life collapses after a wealthy older man seduces her.
At the Mercedes, the back door on the far side swung open and a frail woman dressed in an ankle-length cloth coat and peasant galoshes stumbled from the car.