Chinese netizens praised the DJs for the song selection, saying it perfectly captured the scene as the song has a strong rhythm, and is also known as ‘ Fearless.’īefore the hashtag about Gu went trending, the DJ team already attracted attention on Chinese social media for the interesting and noteworthy music selection at various events.ĭuring the Ice Hockey Women’s Preliminary Round Group A, when Team US competed against Team ROC, there was a conflict between the two teams and the DJ played a remixed version of Katyusha, a Russian song that became famous during World War II. The hashtag “When Gu Ailing Won the Gold, Jay Chou’s Song Huo Yuan Jia is Played” (# 谷爱凌夺冠现场放周杰伦的霍元甲#) has received more than 29 million on Weibo. The American-born Gu has become a superstar in China, and everything related to her is going viral these days, including the songs that were playing when Gu had won gold.
On Feb 8th, the US-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu (谷爱凌, Gu Aling) became the youngest ever gold medalist in freestyle skiing, winning the big air event for China.
In doing so, it resembles the limited-run telenovela, a type of serial drama that is particularly popular in Latin America (Schneider 2012, 9).Īfter an earlier version of a What’s on Weibo overview of China’s most popular TV dramas, it is high time for an overview of the most watched and most discussed TV dramas of Mainland China in the summer of 2015, according to the Baidu charts.Ĭheck out our top 10 of Chinese dramas 2015 on the next page.Ĭhinese netizens are not just closely watching the athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics – the DJs who are performing at the various venues and their noteworthy song selections have also become a popular topic on social media.
Many of China’s dramas become trending topics on Wechat or Weibo every day netizens discuss latest episodes, or express their discontent with how the series is evolving.ĭifferent from television series or soap operas in many other countries, Chinese television dramas always end after a fixed amount of episodes, usually somewhere from 20 to 35 episodes. There are also countless subgenres, varying from ‘teen drama’ or ‘nostalgic family drama’ to ‘palace drama’ (Schneider 2012, 146 Koetse, forthcoming). Since the early 1990s, different genres of television drama have emerged in China. Watching an average of 52 minutes of drama per day, Chinese viewers are the largest consumers of television drama ( dianshiju 电视剧) in the world. What’s on Weibo discusses China’s most popular TV series of the summer of 2015. From costume dramas to soap operas, there is a new TV hit every month. China is the largest consumer of television drama in the world, and TV series come up as trending topics on China’s social media every day.