Drama has an enduring appeal

(China Day by day) Love Endures, a preferred drama aiming to painting the post-1990 technology in a brand new period, has proved to be massively well-liked, garnering over 1.5 billion views on the streaming web site Youku, an government of the positioning revealed throughout a symposium held at Peking College on Monday.

Starring actress Yang Zi and actor Fan Chengcheng, the drama begins in 2008, because the nation prepares to host the Summer season Olympics.

Yang and Fan’s characters, each third-grade college students at a center college, are making ready, together with 4 different childhood pals who grew up in the identical neighborhood in a northern metropolis, for a stage play to commemorate their last yr earlier than coming into maturity.

As time swiftly approaches their thirties, the six younger folks reunite solely to confront their respective struggles and stresses, in the end discovering their true loves after being separated for a few years.

Xie Ying, vice-president of Youku, stated that the drama’s recognition index handed 8,000 on its debut day, making it the primary phenomenal hit on the positioning this yr.

Xie revealed that as an internet platform, they usually obtain greater than 1,000 dramas and sometimes choose round 100, or 10 %, to stream, including that what most attracts them is whether or not the story can resonate broadly with younger viewers.

Zhang Jun, the producer, stated that the first objective behind creating this drama is to encapsulate the period by which the post-1990 technology got here of age, spanning from the speedy enlargement of the web to China’s intensive integration with the world.

He added that this technology, largely being the one youngsters of their households, has cultivated distinctive bonds with their neighbors and childhood companions, therefore making their collective reminiscences explicit to their very own technology.

Zhang Dexiang, vice-chairman of the China Literature and Artwork Critics Affiliation, stated the present has precisely mirrored the societal environments of the post-1990 technology, demonstrating how they’re influenced by the prevailing well-liked cultures of that point, equivalent to Ok-pop and laptop video games, whereas additionally craving for and striving towards their goals.

Dai Qing, a professor on the Academy of Drama and Movie of the Communication College of China, stated that regardless of the home market producing many youth-themed dramas, Love Endures has distinguished itself with a nonlinear narrative that intertwines two timelines, specializing in the characters at 17 and 30 years previous respectively.

Zhong Chengxiang, a veteran researcher on the China Central Institute for Tradition and Historical past, described the drama as a mirror that may help the post-1990 technology in recognizing their very own joys, sorrows, aspirations, and challenges.

A symposium to debate the inventive creation of Love Endures was held in Peking College on March 4.