Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
a very quick reminder that I just decided
to overwork myself this week and then give myself a break next week.
So there wouldn't be any video on tuesday and thursday.
Next week.
I'll still have the saturday news video like this one,
because I wanna do a live stream tomorrow as you're watching this video.
So on Sunday, my time of my closet tour, han fu,
I will be introducing chinese han fu,
mostly female,
cause I don't really own that many male items
through centuries.
That would be like a mixture of history lessons.
Plus i'm gonna show you my clothes
and the different shapes and different cuttings
and different sewings and different styles
and how it developed over time.
So that's gonna be a big live stream,
not sure how long that's gonna run.
And by the end of it, I probably will be super exhausted
plus this video.
I would have already put out four videos out this week
plus a live stream.
And honestly because of that,
I didn't have that much time to watch dramas this week.
Let's go and talk about dramaland this week,
It's a bit weird and crazy.
As usual, first dramas that have gone live
on the 20th a drama air dropped Chen Xiang Ru Xie
and as it turned out,
the rumor was exactly correct.
It was on the same day that it was rumored 20th,
that Immortal Samsara led by Cheng Yi and Yang Zi
went live, the Xian Xia drama.
The upper part is like 38 episodes,
the lower part is like around 40.
So together it's like close to 80 episodes
I don't know how long it's gonna take for them to finish airing his whole drama
probably into the time where we are waiting to turn on heating,
where I am.
I've already ranted about it in my community post.
It did spark a little bit of my nostalgia that I actually
wanna go back and just re watch Love and Destiny again.
Also a drama pretty much went live.
Only like 2 days after they announced they're gonna go live,
which is the second series of the contemporary drama Shao Nian Pai
So this is Shao Nian Pai 2
previous one, growing pain.
This is growing pain2
It's on mango television,
led by Zhang Jiayi, Yan Ni, Zhao Jinmai, Guo Junchen
I did check out the first episode.
And the thing that left me with strongest impression
was they put such huge subtitle fonots on the drama.
It's gigantic,
and it's like really upper position.
Are you trying to just stop any fan editing?
Because that's literally rendering the footage almost unusable for any editor.
And then a drama has just gone live.
I know it has gone live.
I haven't had time to look at it.
iqiyi, Tian Cai Ji Ben Fa, Heart of Genius
I will definitely do my best to check out this drama.
Then let's come to the biggest drama of the drama during last week,
one of a kind treatment a first time ever that
has happened to a drama like that in china,
which is on July the 18th,
there was a drama that was initially scheduled to go live
on both iqiyi and mango television,
also hunan satellite television.
and this was announced very shortly
like two or three days before the 18th,
which was the drama that we've been talking about for.
years
A Love Never Lost, Ren Sheng Ruo Ru Chu Jian, led by
Li Xian, Wei Daxun, Chun Xia, Zhu Yawen,
many many many very well known stars in dramaland
on the day what happened was
it was scheduled to go live at 8 o'clock and when the time came,
the drama didn't show up on either iqiyi or mango television
or hunan satellite television,
satellite television because of its slot is fixed.
When the time comes,
they start to air Minning Town, Shan Hai Qing
people got really confused
an hour or two after the web platforms.
And also hunan television comes out and saying
due to some technical problem,
they've postponed this drama and it's not gonna go live today
and they're trying to solve it, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And people got really pissed.
The rumors started to float on internet and saying
it's because the last round of censorship,
this drama didn't pass.
That's why it got pulled down,
right efore it airs
close to about like 10 o'clock or 11 pm in china,
this drama suddenly went live on iqiyi
if you are not a subscriber,
you can watch the first two if you are you can watch the first six.
And if you clicked into the drama and watched it,
without speeding through by the time you open episode three,
which is like an hour later,
the drama disappeared again.
So on iqiyi this drama went live for about an hour,
and then got taken down completely
in one evening.
A scheduled drama didn't go live
rumored to get cancelled,
then went live again
and then kind of got taken down again.
Never happen to any drama to my knowledge in dramaland ever
since the existence of the major web streaming platforms.
If you watch any pirated version,
you can still see this for six episodes floating on internet.
The rest of the drama may never show up,
may receive heavy editing,
and come out a later date.
And since iqiyi and mango didn't say exactly
what happens and usually for platforms,
they will never tell you exactly what
they would just say due to technical reasons,
you can only guess what happened
right now in china,
the drama usually go through a process of censoring.
If you are only a web drama,
you go through this round of censoring once you
are okay you'll get your license to air it on web.
And that's like the easier to get license.
If you want this drama to go on both web and satellite,
it has to go through a second round of censoring
And it's likely it's the second round that stopped this drama from airing.
And I don't know what iqiyi was thinking.
They probably were like.
well, so it's not gonna go on satellite, but hey,
we can still air it as a web drama,
but then they probably have some kind of agreement with hunan
television and mango tv so if they go ahead on their own,
probably that's going against their contract or whatever.
So they aired it and then took it down.
And then it could also be just because this drama
when it was in the second round of censorship,
got really noted with some of the big problems it has,
therefore from top level is like
shut this drama down.
I don't know
like you you will never find out exactly
one of the reasons people would assume why this drama
got stopped from the leaked episodes would be.
It features some historical figures that have original person.
They change the name of the people,
like one character or something.
But you know if you are well learned of the turning of the century
turning of the Qing dynasty to Republic of China history,
who those people are historical, original, real person.
And judging by how the story is likely to
go based on the first couple of episodes,
it's gonna have too much of dramatization.
Fictional writing
really goes against the historical verdict of these people
in a very simple and sort of childish language to talk about that
is making the bad people looking too good and good people looking too bad.
Maybe that's one of the essential reasons why this drama got put down.
Since we haven't seen the later episodes,
we can only speculate and then you probably
never will see the rest of the episodes.
Now let's talk about other drama news.
I've caught a couple of projects that are being talked about,
which looks really interesting.
Number one is medical drama it's made by Tencent and
it's supposed to also go on satellite television,
called Chi Zi Zhi Xin, can't wait
because it is gonna be led by Zhao Youting, Jin Shijia, Mao Xiaotong
Ias long as the doctor part is similar to Dr. Tang, i'd be happy.
I mean it could be improved, right
Even better would be cooler,
but I cannot wait to see ZYT and JSJ and MXT
acting opposite each other.
Then the other project is a period drama
and it's said to be a legendary story type of thing
probably will have some Wu Xia, Some jiangsu element in it,
called Yi Nian Guan Shan english title A Journey to Love
and it's a full original creation.
So you don't base it on anything.
It's gonna be led by Liu Shishi and Liu Yuning, two lius
different generation of actors,
and then this drama will also feature many many many other people
Fang Yilun, He Landou, also features Chen Haoyu
and the other thing that worth noting is it's written by zhang wei,
the script writer who just canceled her weibo account
due to the unstoppable amount of internet bullying.
She gets from a dream of splendour writing.
Let's just pray for her to write this one.
She would take all the lessons she learned from dream of splendour
and try not to step on the current contemporary land mines,
then two more things about entertainment.
Number one is during this week,
iqiyi the streaming platform of dramas and Dou Yin,
china's Tiktok have announced a collaboration plan.
You can edit iqiyi copyrighted dramas in all kinds of fan video
and put it on douyin and you will not have any copyright strikes
making all the dou yin editors very happy
also just making all the iqiyi dramas
having that much more of an opportunity and free promotion
to show up on douyin
That's just the progress of different platforms fighting against each other.
Right now we are at the stage where a television
long form content streaming platform is teaming up
with a short video, scroll through Tiktok type of platform.
The future is an exciting and probably a weird one.
Then to follow up with last week's news on the
three young actors trying to get into national theatre.
Yi Yang Qian Xi has come out and declined.
So basically he decided to quit.
Like he got the position, but he said,
i'm not gonna take it and sends out this official letter about things.
Then Hu Xianxu comes out and wrote a super long super long article
detailing all the process of him going through
round one, round two, round three interview,
getting into the position,
basically saying he got this through proper process.
Everything was like according to rules.
And although not saying you know clearly i'm not gonna quit,
he didn't say he's gonna quit,
so he probably still gonna take his position.
The other guy Luo Yizhou hasn't said anything.
So that's the update with that.
Personally.
don't have that much to say
I do have friend who works actually in
basically they are the friends and like sister brother organization of the national theater.
And i've talked to that person extensively about this thing.
And it just feels like a really interesting situation
where if you are standing on different positions,
taking different perspectives,
and pretty much coming from different circles,
whether you're actually the national theatre circle,
whether you are the Bian Zhi system circle,
whether you're just like public who do not quite
know how everything works in this system,
you totally get different pictures.
It's almost like impossible to fully explain to people from
a different circle about why this thing is like it is
The type of when you belong to a different circle,
you just almost have a completely different view of the world.
It makes me think about these days everywhere people are screaming,
we're so divided.
And like we can't even talk to each other,
although we're all humans and speaking the same language,
somehow it's just impossible to communicate.
You can see that in this issue as well.
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Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.