The Roger family is almost the culmination of the characteristics of the modern Chinese bourgeoisie: Protestants, all immigrated to the United States except him, and intermarriage with other races (whites, Koreans); What a complete "Judaization"!
But in China, where the aristocracy has completely perished, there are probably only such families left that may continue to have domestic servants and establish some kind of emotional connection with domestic servants in the second half of the twentieth century. This is the last remaining light of the "righteousness of monarch and minister" in modern Chinese society.
However, this light only inhabits the mortal shell of the old woman after all. When she collapsed from a stroke, there was no one else to help Roger cook those dishes that only a big restaurant could eat outside. Those delicacies are like a high wall separating the two worlds of Roger and Sister Tao from Hong Kong outside. The loneliness of life is the true face of contemporary Hong Kong.
Roger maintained the master-servant relationship with Sister Tao to the end. But Roger would also die of old age. He who is rich but has no children and is not used to doing housework, must be waiting for the fate of the old people's home, and I am afraid that there will be no other godson who will die for him as he did for Sister Tao.
"The silver chain is broken, the golden pot is broken, the bottle is broken by the spring, the water wheel is broken at the well's mouth, the dust returns to the earth, and the spirit returns to the God who gave it." (Ecclesiastes 12:6-7)
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