| The Price of Peace | |
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| Genre | World War II period drama |
| Starring | Rayson Tan Xiang Yun Chen Shucheng Jacintha Abisheganaden James Lye Lina Ng Christopher Lee Ivy Lee Carole Lin Ryan Choo |
| Opening theme | Heping De Daijia (和平的代價) performed by Sebastian Tan |
| Country of origin | Singapore |
| Language(s) | Mandarin English |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
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| Running time | 45 minutes per episode |
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| Original channel | TCS Eighth Frequency TCS Fifth Frequency |
| First shown in | 30 June 1997 |
| Original run | 30 June 1997 – 19 August 1997 |
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| Related shows | In Pursuit of Peace |
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| Traditional Chinese | 和平的代價 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 和平的代价 | ||||||
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The Price of Peace is a Singaporean World War II period drama television series first run on TCS Eighth Frequency (now MediaCorp Channel 8) on 30 June 1997. Although the series was originally in Mandarin, an English dubbed version was also broadcast on TCS Fifth Frequency (now MediaCorp Channel 5) in 1999. The drama was rerun in 2007 on MediaCorp Channel 8. The series is based on a 1995 book of the same title (published by Asiapac Books), which contains numerous first-hand accounts of war veterans and eyewitnesses.
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On 7 July 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident sparks off the Second Sino-Japanese War as Japan launches a full invasion on China. Dida Cheng, a former soldier who served in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, travels to Nanyang (refers to the Southeast Asia region), where he meets the opera singer Cuicui and a Japanese woman called Hideko. The three of them are drawn into a complex love triangle. Xie Guomin, an anti-Japanese activist, and Zhou Wenlong, the asthmatic son of the boss of a tailor shop, both fall in love with the porridge vendor Wang Qiumei. After Qiumei is publicly humiliated by an evil businessman, she is saved by Wenlong and decides to marry him. However, she is already secretly pregnant with Guomin's child. The relationship between the three of them becomes very strained as a consequence.
After the Japanese occupied Singapore, they start the Sook Ching Massacre, in which thousands of Chinese are brutally killed and persecuted. Xie Guomin is arrested by the Kempeitai and becomes a hanjian and informant after succumbing under torture to the Japanese. On the other hand, Dida Cheng becomes a resistance fighter and ally of Force 136 and he continues to fight the Japanese invaders to liberate Singapore.
Historical figures, such as the war heroes Lim Bo Seng, Elizabeth Choy and Sybil Kathigasu and the famous philanthropist Tan Kah Kee, as well as notorious Japanese military figures, such as Ishibe Toshiro and Yoshimura Ekio, are featured as semi-fictional characters in the series as well.