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发帖数: 15526 | 1 在天朝屏蔽股沟的情况下。天朝文化的软实力是不容小觑了。
Yanxi Palace: The most Googled show on Earth
The Chinese drama Story of Yanxi Palace is the most Googled TV show of 2018
globally, despite Google being largely blocked in the country.
The search engine's analytics suggested that the top interest in the drama
has come from Asian regions like Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Hong Kong,
but its popularity in mainland China has been overwhelming as well.
The series has been streamed more than 15 billion times on iQiyi, China's
Netflix-like site where the show premiered in July before it reached
domestic TV channels and more than 70 markets abroad. It was the most
watched online drama in China for 39 consecutive days over the summer.
The 70-episode Story of Yanxi Palace fictionalised the power struggles among
the concubines of Emperor Qianlong in the 1700s.
The protagonist, a smart girl with a humble background, manages to rise
through the ranks among the harem and wins both love and respect from the
emperor.
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Image caption
The Chinese title of Yanxi Palace appears as the most Googled TV show of
2018
Its theme may be likened to a Cinderella tale or Netflix's The Crown that
chronicles the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. But its own uniqueness has made
it the undisputed entertainment sensation of the year.
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Here's how it took over China and its neighbouring regions.
It catches up with a trend of feminist shows
The heroine of the show, Wei Yingluo, is unlike most traditional Chinese
female characters who are taught to be tolerant, submissive and fragile.
Inspired by the actual real-life consort of Emperor Qianlong, the story
follows Yingluo as a woman of Chinese Han ethnicity in the Qing dynasty -
the last imperial dynasty in China ruled by the Manchurian ethnicity that
suppressed the Han people.
But her intelligence, determination and appropriate ferocity meant she was
eventually granted her the title of imperial noble consort, the highest
possible position for a Han person at that time.
Yingluo's most famous line from the show goes like this : "I, Wei Yingluo,
am naturally hot-tempered and not to be pushed around. Whoever keeps talking
[nonsense], I have all kinds of methods to go against her."
Image copyrightIQIYI
Image caption
Wei Yingluo started off as a servant in the palace but slowly worked her way
up
The woman she is based on - Xiaoyichun - was posthumously given the title of
empress, making her the only Han empress during the Manchu-reigned dynasty.
The show comes as the latest example of how feminist-themed soap operas have
captured Chinese audiences.
Other shows like The Legend of Zhenhuan - another imperial rising-up-the-
ranks story bought by Netflix - and The Empress of China, that tells the
story of the only female emperor in Chinese history, have also taken off in
China.
It didn't face much censorship
Before the show aired on TV screens, it was shown online.
The co-producer and initial distributor of the series, iQiyi, is one of
China's most popular online video platforms - helping the show gain large
traffic and, more importantly, easier regulatory scrutiny for its debut.
In China, the National Radio and Television Administration oversees all
content on radio and television. A TV project has to obtain the go-ahead
from it even before shooting starts.
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When video sites emerged a few years ago, they could publish anything as
long as they thought it was within the regulator's rules.
In 2016, an online series featuring gay love went viral but was taken off in
the middle of the streaming season. A year later, a a ban on homosexual
content was issued.
Online video platforms can't broadcast shows at will but the censorship they
go through is much lighter than TV channels, which are mostly owned by the
government.
Low-cost cast, high-quality production
No actor in the show is very famous, except for one Hong Kong actress,
Charmaine Sheh, who was willing to play a supporting role.
Gong Yu, founder and CEO of iQiyi, said the company had "deliberately cast
lesser known actors... rejecting recent trends in the Chinese industry that
put too much emphasis of the celebrity appeal of actors in their productions
".
It came at an essential time when Chinese celebrities' high income and
ambiguous tax practices had caught the attention of the authorities.
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Total spending on the show's cast didn't even reach one tenth of the total
production cost, according to Chinese magazine Portrait citing series
producer Yu Zheng, who added that the rest of the money was mainly spent on
things like costume and make-up.
For example, concubines in the show wear three earrings on each side, as was
the tradition of Manchu women at that time.
So if you've never heard of Yanxi Palace, you could try Googling it - you
wouldn't be the first. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | | m*****u
发帖数: 15526 | | l****o
发帖数: 5435 | 4 从吴谨言一度被央视公审就可以看出主子急了二狗子上蹿下跳。
”延禧攻略“的点播量在中国也是惊人。 | m**********2
发帖数: 622 | 5 被70个国家买断转播权你就知道了。而且这个新闻都过去两周了到现在才说？
上次有个视频，一个外国老哥拿着翻译笔，说一句翻译一句还看得津津有味。 | L**********g
发帖数: 498 | | l****o
发帖数: 5435 | 7 连我这种什么甄嬛传，如懿传都没兴趣看的，只看了这部。
而且看到吴谨言和许凯参加个综艺节目终于圆梦都能落泪。可见这部剧用意多深
编剧也是女 | c**2
发帖数: 8496 | 8 I've seen 延禧攻略 and loved it. Fast pace. |
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