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In the 1990s through the early 2000s, plenty of Westerners saw Chinese cinema in high-brow art houses. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would be a classic example. And since when does China, unlike South Korea, need Western validation for anything?

You're talking about a particular genre in a particular context, so it's best not to generalize too much.

If Bollywood is as famous as you say it is, then why does South Asia have to "step up?"

Hong Kong is part of China.

By "always," you mean this generation.

During the Republican Era (between the World Wars), China had the most influential and successful film industry in Asia when the Korean peninsula was still a Japanese colony.

Up through the 1990s, Hong Kong (TVB) led the way with Asian tv dramas.

You're suffering from recency bias by comparing the Chinese and (South) Korean entertainment industries this way. It's only a matter of time before Chinese popular culture rises to the top again.

But, with bingeing, you wouldn't have the shared experience of watching the ongoing drama at the same time as (mostly) everyone else and discussing it with them.

So if you cannot afford something, it's ok to steal it? Gotcha!

Watching pirated content harms all the artists who put in the work and got nothing out of it.

Illegal sites should be shut down.

Illegal sites should be shut down.

LOTD & TTEOTM are xianxia, not wuxia.

I started Reset right after I finished You Are My Hero. I didn't recognize Bai JingTing immediately. His body language was completely different.

O&O + F&E came out in 2021. A reasonable hypothesis would be that the new season-related guidelines were enacted afterwards. IIRC, these guidelines became official around the time of LYF's release two years later.

At any rate, this sequel will likely arrive by this summer (if not earlier) due to a possible loophole (not necessarily the title change).

Ok, let's be friends!

You're scapegoating cnetz.

You weren't asking. You were saying.

Unless you read Chinese, you have no idea what cnetz are or are not sayin, in or out of context. Stop scapegoating people you don't even know!

Oh, I see you're from India. Rumors and speculation about what some cnetz may or may not have said, out of any context whatsoever, somehow infuriates you. But what about the fact that your government bans Chinese (entertainment) apps and your media demonizes China and Chinese people on a daily basis? Does this infuriate you at all? Or, do you just like to pick on scapegoats who can't defend themselves for your self-righteously indignant outrage?

Just because you read something somewhere doesn't make it true. Unless you know Chinese, you're only listening to hearsay.

But let's say, hypothetically, that thousands of cnetz are saying this. So what? They make up a tiny, trivial percentage of the 1.4+ billion population in China. And why can't they have their own opinions, good or bad, about the popular culture (including dramas) of their own country? Do you think your opinions are somehow more valid than those who intimately know and understand Chinese language, history, culture, etc. and actually live in
China?

I second Reset!

Love Between Fairy and Devil.

Dylan Wang is the male lead in this drama as well.