The Little Nyonya

A Peranakan family across three generations, beginning with a deaf-mute daughter sold into a marriage and following her granddaughter through the Japanese occupation and after. The series was made in the Nyonya world of Straits Chinese Singapore and Malacca, with its own dress, its own cooking and its own rules about who a daughter may marry. It averaged 993,000 viewers an episode and peaked at 1.67 million on the finale.