After lying low for some time since getting caught in a controversy, Xiao Zhan suddenly took to social media last week to post a photo of plum blossoms which had people trying to guess its meaning and viewing it as a hopeful message from the singer-actor. On April 13, Xiao Zhan's new rendition of the 1964 classic entitled Ode to the...
Eternal Love and Ashes of Love are hands down my top 2 favorite xianxia romance dramas, so please allow me to gush over how adorable this is. The Chinese version of the reality show Great Escape 密室大逃脱 will soon return for a second season as shooting has begun on April 11 in Guangzhou. As a crowd gathered outside the building...
It has been almost two years since Yang Chaoyue first started in the industry in 2018 through the survival show Produce 101 China that has since opened doors for her to debut as part of the idol group Rocket Girls and had her venturing into acting with her first role in The Promise of Chang'An. Her first starring role as the leading...
On 8 April, Wuhan – the original epicentre of the pandemic outbreak – lifted its 11-week lockdown which allows its 11 million residents to travel in and out of the city without any special authorisation. And as Covid-19 cases in China slows down, the country has relaxed its restrictions and people are allowed to move about again. However, as...
Actor Juck Zhang Chao who's been in the industry for over a decade drew attention last year as the romantic lead of the web drama Somewhere Only We Know. While it seems that his career could only go up, he has suddenly found himself in the middle of a scandal after his ex went on a long rant...
Award-winning actress Zhou Dongyu (周冬雨) will be teaming up with Xu Kai (许凯) for the upcoming fantasy television drama Gu Jue Zhuan <古玦传> (literally “The Legend of Gu and Jue”), her first television drama since 2019’s Behind the Scenes <幕后之王>. Gu Jue Zhuan follows Shang Gu, once a leader of the four immortals, who falls into a deep sleep after sacrificing herself in a trial...
The main purpose of the Movement Control Order is to flatten the curve of infection and hopefully stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. However, we have to remember that life doesn’t return to normal immediately after the MCO ends. It’s honestly a bit disappointing that China, the country first and most severely hit with the pandemic ignored...
Dilireba (迪丽热巴) is starting work on a new drama despite rumors saying that she has ended her management contract with Jay Walk Studio. The upcoming historical fiction series, based on the manhua Chang Ge Xing <长歌行> written by Xia Da (夏达), is about a Tang Dynasty princess, known as Li Changge, who disguises herself as a man as she plans an...
Yu Zheng’s (于正) Winter Begonia <鬓边不是海棠红> has already begun airing in China. Loosely adapted from the novel of the same name, Winter Begonia tells the story of two men who become lifelong soulmates as they spread the love for Peking opera and heroism in a time of war. It stars Huang Xiaoming (黄晓明) and Yin Zheng (尹正). Charmaine Sheh (佘詩曼) plays Fan Xiang’er, wife of Cheng...
Chinese idols Lu Han (鹿晗) and Kris Wu (吴亦凡), two former members of the K-Pop group EXO, has been breaking the Internet with their first music collaboration “Coffee (LH x KW)”. The lyrical music video, which dropped on April 1st, dominated Weibo’s trending list with several hashtags, including “I want a cup of coffee,” a lyric in the song. On their respective...
