#chen qing ling 2019

[eohachu]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAREST @lan-xichens 💙💙💙

LIU HAIKUAN as LAN XICHEN

in 陈情令 The Untamed (2019), episode 27

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Untamed (2019)

Xiaozhan and Wang Zhuocheng the untamed behind the scenes #shorts #weiying #jiangcheng #theuntamed

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QhhClAOPG48

[eohachu]

i swear i don't do this on purpose

[pumpkinpaix]

The 2019 Chinese drama The Untamed (CQL) quickly became a massive phenomenon, drawing millions of viewers in China and beyond. Its resonant story, rich cast of characters, and striking production captured audience attention globally; its paratexts and fandoms helped keep that attention sustained. What made this particular mix so compelling, and what can The Untamed show us about increasingly transcultural media flows? Catching Chen Qing Ling explores how The Untamed has been translated, produced, distributed, watched, and remixed. Contributors offer multifaceted insights on the path from subcultural writing tradition to highly profitable entertainment media, as well as some of the challenges such change engenders. From fan translations and digital labor, to the 227 Incident and issues of censorship, this collection explores some of the questions raised by The Untamed’s enduring resonance and considers what it might mean for the future of transcultural media.

Stay tuned for more information and contributor spotlights in the coming days!

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[pariaritzia]

Wei Wuxian & Lan Wangji in The Untamed/Chen Qing Ling (2019) / Ram & Bheem in RRR (2022)

[rainbowsky]

YIBO-OFFICIAL Story Exchange Responses

As we saw in the recent 12/12 post from YIBO-OFFICIAL, they responded to 3 of the story exchange cards from readers. Here are those responses.

Thanks to @potteresque-ire for translating! 💖.

As you may remember, YIBO-OFFICIAL invited everyone to exchange stories using the card provided. They got a lot of responses.

My name is

Recently

I feel

After winter passes, I prepare to

DD's responses:

Recently: My movie "Nameless" has been scheduled for the first day of the Lunar New Year.

I feel: A little excited.

After winter passes, I prepare to: I haven't made up my mind yet. Step by step.

We did a mini version of this on Tumblr as well. You can see my responses here.

YIBO-OFFICIAL chose three responses to reply to.

Response 1

Recently: An elderly in the family passed away. Hustled daily by livelihood onto the highways (i.e. travelling a lot to make ends meet). Listening to Like the Sunshine.

I feel: Very warm and very healing. (Pie note: the fan make use of Y-O's prompt to say she feels the song is very warm and very healing).

After winter passes, I prepare to: Take the whole family to see Hidden Blade on the Lunar New Year.

It was accompanied by this post:

The studio response:

Time passes by, and those who come with it are all but passing travellers.

To have met and become family, to have left warm recollections in each other’s lives, is already a happy memory of this life.

(I) hope your life moving forward will be filled with the breaths of sunlight. Hold tight the hands of your family, embrace the skies that are bluer than yesterday’s, and make bloom in your life even more resplendent flowers.

The person who sent in the original card posted a follow-up response when they saw the studio's reply:

I really didn’t expect that I would be replied by @YIBO-OFFICIAL.

I’m a “mom fan” born in 1978, my son is 17 years old and is having his college entrance exam this year. My son knows that I’m fanning Wang Yibo, and has always supported me!

In 2019, because of repeated recommendations from friends, I was going to Changsha to participate in Happy Camp and with the 5-hour voyage, I downloaded Chen Qing Ling!

I couldn’t get into it at first, but eventually I got more and more fascinated by it. The next day, I saw the photo of my son (translation note: referring to Dd here, since she’s “mom fan”, i.e., she sees Dd as a son) at the Hunan Broadcasting Station and I thought he looked familiar, but didn’t know he was the actor who played Lan Wangji!

Attracted by Lan Wangji, I started to do some digging. I first watched Gank Your Heart, then One More Try. The more I dug, I discovered that behind the sunny smile of my son was the hard work in foreign countries since childhood, was the sacrifice of his teenage years, was his stumbles along his way. From the bottom of my heart, I ached for this child and I started guarding him, becoming a “mom fan”! At least for 1231 days already!

Wang Yibo, thank you for making my ordinary Chinese life colorful, thank you for letting me have the companionship of a lot of like-minded people. Thank you for warming my fourth winter!

Grow with you and work hard with you!

Response 2

Recently: Family and I have all been ill. Haven't recovered yet.

I feel: Somewhat tired.

After winter passes, I prepare to: Be disciplined in maintaining a daily schedule of work and rest and in diet, and stay healthy

It was accompanied by this post:

The studio response:

The miseries of life and illnesses seem to never inform anyone, their sudden “honorary visit” catching people off guard. As such, I hope, at this intersection between the end and the start of the years, that you’ll find the fulcrum of balance in life, overcome life’s miseries and bodily ailments, be good about eating, drinking water, sleeping, living life and getting along with family, become each other’s harbour and you can, too, be a child who makes your dad and mom proud!

In the new year, embrace yourself, embrace your family, embrace love and the visit of happiness ~

Response 3

Recently: Work keeps requiring overtime and is so, so busy, but (I) have loved myself well.

I feel: Very lost. (I) don't like my current job, (I) will try my best to adjust my mentality.

After winter passes, I prepare to: Switch to a work environment I like. Love life like sunshine, live warmly and happily!

Many people lose the small blessings of life amidst their busy work, but (I'm) so glad that in your busy work, you haven't forgotten to love yourself.

Life has its ups and downs like that. Like the skies above our heads are sometimes sunny and sometimes raining, but (I) believe every kind and sincere child will be gifted by life, and good luck will find you in a chance encounter.

Winter will leave. Spring will bring the leaves of hope. Rainbow will bring you luck. Hope you'll find a work environment you like, and live warmly and happily.

Thanks again, Pie, for making this all accessible to us. You are such a massive help!! ❤️❤️❤️

[noramoya]

Why I Have Related, In My Mind, Michael Jackson – Wei WuXian – Xiao Zhan

“I Saw This MJ’s Photoshop Some Time Ago And I Thought It Was So Beautiful !! Then, In The End of 2019, When I Put “The Untamed” On My Netflix List (Around The Time I Cut My Relationship With Hollyweird), The First Photo of Wei Wu Xian (Persona) I Saw, It Reminded Me Of This MJ’s Photoshop! So I Kind of Related Wei WuXian To MJ (In My Mind). When I First Watched A Video of XIAO ZHAN (The Actor Who Plays WWX) Singing With A Military–Jacket-Alike-MJ, Again I Related The 3 of Them… When In The 2/27-Scandal About XIAO ZHAN Happened, And The Poor Guy Was Suffering On The Hands of HATERS And The PRESS, It Looked So… So Familiar !!! Well… Just Writing This To Show You Guys How I Went Slowly Getting Into THIS Specific Chinese Series” ••• My Rumblings About Chen Qing Ling, (The Untamed), On September 22nd. 2021.

[eohachu]

there are two sentences one must say in life...

to the people who are following me

thank you

im sorry

[eohachu]

birthday + 1 month gift for @sandushengshou 💜 & @userdramas event 12: loss

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

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[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Untamed (2019)

Lan Zhan as WanYibo WeiYing as Xiaozhan 🥰💚❤️ #forever

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JnjGl7_LG0g

[pumpkinpaix]

Chapter Spotlight 3:

"A Full Account: Queer Structures and Narrative Democratization in Mo Dao Zu Shi" by Andrea Acosta and Lillian Lu

Did researching/writing your chapter change how you saw the text, the fandom, or the media? How so?

This is less a change on how we saw the text, fandom, or media and more on how we view academia and academic work. For each of us, this was a first experience in co-authoring a critical essay with another person—beyond it being a productive (and joyful) experience for us, we also really appreciated the way it moved us away from the so-called "cult of individual genius" that dominates academia and toward something more honest, collaborative, and relational in our respective scholarly practices.

If there’s one thing you hope the fandom takes away from your article, what would it be?

Against the fandom urge to "pin down" the text, we want to highlight how queer, unsettled, and plurivocal the novel is—and how much more interesting and beautiful it is because of its form! The ethos of Wangxian is baked into the novel's queer and potentially revolutionary structure.

What is your MDZS/CQL origin story? (i.e. how did you come to this text?)

One night in 2019 (before The Untamed was released but after the donghua had come out), Andrea held Lilly captive for two hours so that she could show her a self-made PowerPoint about the series. Later, we experienced the release of The Untamed together and never looked back.

Favorite adaptation, if any?

For Lilly, the audio drama. For Andrea, a Frankenstein-ed mix of season 1 of the donghua and The Untamed in its entirety.

Who's your favorite character?

In true compatible fashion, Lilly's favorite character is Lan Wangji, and Andrea's is Wei Wuxian.

How did this chapter come about, especially as a co-authored production?

The chapter and its sections (imperfectly parsed and intentionally uneven) carry with them all the ephemera of the conversations that produced them: the late-night conversations from our apartments during the 2020 lockdown, the Zoom conversations held in different states during the winter holidays, and the sunnier days we worked together in cafés on Wednesday mornings. Our chapter mirrors these small affective, relational, and quotidian moments that make acts of academic writing not just possible but desirable. Writing this chapter has been, in short, a labor of love.

You can find Andrea and Lillian on Twitter/X @a_priyd and @lillyluwrites.

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[eohachu]

-> the untamed

[eohachu]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREENA. @highwarlockkareena

WangXian feat. A.C.E's "Down"

I never go to parties 'Cause I ain't tryina see anybody No, I never feel like I get lonely I'm just stuck in this cycle of mine.

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Untamed (2019)

ENG SUB (xiaozhan getting massaged by wang zhuocheng. #theuntamed #wangzhuocheng #xiaozhan

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFKgWE3e8qs

[eohachu]

i feel like i said this before but... imagine if i had watched the untamed and my country: the new age in 2019 as they aired. lmao. god was extending their merciful hand at me when they decided to not let that happen