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A Legend Retold
The most ambitious and expensive Chinese film project to date, epic fantasy Fengshen trilogy, dubbed China’s ‘Lord of the Rings,’ updates an ancient saga with contemporary values while re-engineering domestic film production to achieve it
Lost in the Northeast
The highest-rated Chinese TV show in the last five years, suspense drama The Long Season strikes a provocative balance between realism and aesthetic through its portrayals of ordinary people struggling through tremendous social change
Cast In a New Light
While casting agencies are playing a larger role than ever in the success of Chinese shows and films, old habits die hard in the realm of sex, bribes and videotape
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City Life Builds Character
In his latest novel, Ye Zhaoyan depicts the historic changes of early modern China through the lives of the ordinary people of his hometown, Nanjing
Abridged History
Ongoing excavations of the once-lost Zhouqiao Bridge reveal the former opulence of the Northern Song Dynasty capital – and the mysteries it still holds
Bridges Burned
The collapse of the ancient Wan’an Bridge in a fire has caused an irrevocable loss to China’s age-old craft of bridge construction as some ask if it is worth rebuilding