2020 has been quite an interesting and rollercoaster ride of a year, leaving many of us to be stuck at home. Luckily enough, there’s been plenty of great dramas from China and Taiwan this year to keep ...
Asian dramas, including Chinese shows where the male and female leads get into a contract relationship, are quite popular. The storyline usually follows a man and a woman getting into a fake ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. In some versions of Mulan’s story, her comrades never ...
IN THEORY “The Bad Kids”, this summer’s most talked-about Chinese television drama, is a thriller about a teacher turned mass killer, matching wits with three plucky children in a quiet coastal town.
“Rich guy, poor girl” is one of the most popular tropes in Asian dramas. The widely famous genre usually follows the story of a man belonging to an affluent background who falls for a girl from a poor ...
“Nothing But Thirty”, a new Chinese drama airing on Dragon Television, encourages viewers to think differently. It follows three friends living in Shanghai whose lives are all far from perfect as they ...
IQIYI’s drama series “The Bad Kids” has landed a slot on Japanese pay-TV platform Wowow, a first for a contemporary, mainland Chinese show. It is expected to play out from early 2021. Where many ...
Americans are deeply familiar with the classic time-travel trope. Someone travels backward or forwards in time, often with the aid of technology, messes with the history as it was (or is to be) ...