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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(1994)

45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
4.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a Chinese television series adapted from the classical 14th century novel of the same title by Luo Guanzhong. It is part historical, part legend, and part mythical – romanticises and dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, who tried to replace the dwindling Han dynasty or restore it. The focus is mainly on the three power blocs that emerged from the remnants of the Han dynasty, and would eventually form the three states of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. The novel deals with the plots, personal and military battles, intrigues, and struggles of these states to achieve dominance for almost 100 years.

Directed by Wang Fulin - With Tang Guoqiang, Bao Guo'an, Zhang Guangbei, Wei Zongwan

Empresses in the Palace(2011-2012)

45min per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Zhen Huan, a 17-year-old innocent introduced into the imperial court as the latest concubine of Emperor Yong Zheng. Her dreams of a new life of love and prosperity are swiftly dashed as she enters a dog-eat-dog world of treachery and corruption.

Directed by Zheng Xiaolong - With Susan Sun

Nirvana in Fire(2015-2018)

45min per episode | Drama
4.5/5 (with 23 votes)

During the great unrest of 4th-century China, war breaks out between the feudal Northern Wei and Southern Liang dynasties. General Lin Xie of Liang takes his only 17-year-old son, Lin Shu, into battle and successfully fights off the hostile Wei army. But when a political rival frames General Lin Xie, it causes the deaths of 70,000 Chiyan army soldiers. Lin Shu is able to escape with his life with the help of a loyal subordinate. Twelve years later, Lin Shu establishes the Jiangzuo Alliance and returns to the capital as the Chief Mei Changsu. When the Northern Wei forces mount another attack, to what lengths will Mei Changsu go to protect his own people?

Directed by Li Xue, Kong Sheng - With Hu Ge, Liu Tao, Wang Kai, Leo Wu, Jin Dong, Qiao Xin, ...

The Sword and The Brocade(2021)

45min per episode | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Set during the Ming Dynasty, the story revolves around the romance between General Xu Lingyi and the concubine's daughter Shiyiniang that starts from an arranged marriage. Despite being born with a low status, Luo Shiyiniang is extremely assertive and believes that a woman's vision should not be limited to the household. She hopes to rely on her embroidery skills as a ticket to freedom. However, the once esteemed Luo family is in a state of decline. Hoping to save the clan through a marriage alliance, Shiyiniang is selected to become the wife of Yongping Duke and great general Xu Lingyi. Things were not easy for Shiyiniang due to the Xu family's biases towards her. Nonetheless, she manages to win over their trust through her optimism and sincerity. Xu Lingyi also becomes attracted to Shiyiniang's various beautiful qualities such that husband and wife manage to find love after marriage.

Judge of Song Dynasty(2005-2006)

45min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Kan Weiping - With He Bing, Luo Haiqiong, Fan Wei, Shen Aojun, Miao Pu, Wu Jun, ...

Scarlet Heart(2011-2014)

50min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
4.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Zhang Xiao, a Chinese young woman from the 21st century, accidentally travels back in time to the Qing Dynasty period during the reign of Kangxi Emperor after experiencing a deadly combination of traffic collision and electrocution, resulting her somehow reliving the life of one of her previous incarnations and forcing her to assumes the identity belongs to her past: Maertai Rouxi (Liu Shi Shi), the teenage daughter of a Manchu nobleman, who also had a near-fatal incident in her own time which Zhang awakes from.

With Liu Shishi, Nicky Wu, Kevin Cheng, Yuan Hong, Lin Gengxin, Annie Liu, ...

K.O.3an Guo 2017(2017-)

25min per episode
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

While testing out the interdimensional traveling gear, the representatives from KO One accidentally repeated the same mistake their predecessor made: They crushed Liu Bei with a boulder. In order to maintain silver dimension's timeline, Zhi Ge assumed the identity of his doppelganger Liu Bei and completed the sworn brotherhood ceremony with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. As he awaits for Liu Bei's recovery, Zhi Ge must learn the ins/outs of Silver dimension while avoid being exposed as a fake.

A Dream in Red Mansions(1987)

45min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
4.7/5 (with 9 votes)

A Dream in Red Mansions, released in 1987, was a television series produced by CCTV adapted from the classic Chinese novel A Dream in Red Mansions. It gained enormous popularity with its superb music, cast, and plot adaptation. It was first filmed in Beijing in Mandarin. Then it was translated into Cantonese, Shanghainese, and other languages and aired in the rest of China. It is 36 episodes long. The TV series is regarded by many within China as being a near-definitive adaptation of the novel. A TV remake of the novel started airing in 2010; however, much objection was raised over the unorthodox costume design and other contested interpretations.

Directed by Wang Fulin - With Ouyang Fenqiang, Chen Xiaoxu, Zhang Li, Deng Jie, An Wen, Yuan Mei, ...

Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System(2023)

1h 1min per episode | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.

Red Chapters(1999)

Documentary

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