TV Show Highlights the Lives of Professional Hostesses
A popular thriller set in 1980s Taiwan humanizes the women behind a difficult and stigmatized profession
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Besides unoriginal plots and characters, some Chinese shows even reuse actors
Top Reality Show of 2018: Dunk of China
The smash-hit variety show combined basketball with pop culture to lure millions into watching
Hair Razing
Two recent dramas offer new explanations to why the wife of Emperor Qianlong cut her hair—and got herself banished from court
Meteroic Flop
Netflix remake of beloved teen drama slammed for slavish devotion to “socialist values”
New Variety Shows of Spring 2018
Celebrities singing, celebrities cooking, celebrities raising kids—oh, and some street dancers too
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TWOC’s 5 Best and 5 Worst Shows of 2017
Sun Jiahui, author of Show of the Week, looks over the year in Chinese TV
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