#chiang tien

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you?

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[mondstalgia]

okay but, what about my sanity?

[guzhufuren]

Chiang Tien as Ai Di in Kiseki: Dear to Me

[khaotungsfirst]

they’re so unserious 😭

[bunni-bun]

crying so much but look at the photos Kai shared on his insta 😭 his caption is so sweet as well 🥺

[a-cookie2121]

credit: kiseki official instagram

[scorbleeo]

Drama Gossip: Kiseki: Dear to Me (奇蹟)

Source: Google Images

Bai Zong Yi, an exemplary student with dreams of becoming a doctor, is unexpectedly drawn into the world of an injured gangster named Fan Ze Rui. This unexpected encounter disrupts their tranquil routines and sends their lives into a whirlwind. Their initial awkwardness gradually gives way to familiarity and eventually blossoms into a heartfelt connection.

Just as their love story begins to unfold, Fan Ze Rui's criminal past catches up with him.

Source: MyDramaList (2023)

It's Been A While, Taiwan BLs

I haven't enjoyed a Taiwan BL drama as much as I did with Kiseki in so long. Seriously, this drama scratched the itch that has been around for a very long time. The last time I wholeheartedly loved a Taiwan BL drama was when I watched History3: Trapped, so you can imagine how long that metaphorical itch has been around. Hell, I've rewatched Trapped multiple times just because no Taiwan BL came close to how Trapped made me feel.

Anyhow, lets get on with Kiseki. I might have enjoyed it and maybe I love it, but it is not a perfectly well-done drama. If Kiseki had been given more episodes, or full-length episodes, the flow of the plot could have been much better and smoother. There were times when I thought the drama felt like it was rushing through key plotlines. For example, the whole Aidi going into jail to protect Zongyi from being attacked again and that event that happened right before Aidi went in, it could have had more light shone on it. Additionally, I had hoped for at least one more episode of angst and separation with both couples after the time jump. Of course, because Kiseki was only given 13 30-minutes episodes, I will applaud the writer(s) for how the story played out. It was not perfect but it was not unacceptably bad either.

Moving on to the characters themselves. I will honest here, I decided to follow the release of each episode weekly for Aidi and Chenyi. Going into this drama, I always knew the second lead couple was going to be my favourite. However, what surprised me was how invested I was with Zerui and Zongyi too. I liked the way their relationship developed before the time jump. It was after the time jump that the vibe fell off a little. That part felt rushed, even though it was beautiful, it was rushed. Likewise, I was enjoying the pining and undiscovered feelings between Aidi and Chenyi. Despite absolutely loving this couple, I thought the way the writer(s) wrote Chenyi's feelings for his adoptive father/boss and Aidi was weak. We should have been allowed to see Chenyi's struggle with his feelings. Also, I didn't like how Chenyi explained the difference in what he felt for his adoptive father/boss and Aidi, it was as if the writing became lazy near the end.

Like I said, if only Kiseki was given more time or at least more episodes. Many problems I had with this drama was tied to the lack of development due to the shortage of time. Regardless, the plot holes were not obvious or huge so the show still went on seamlessly.

2023 seem to be the year for Taiwan productions and I am living for it.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5)

P.S.: So many cameos and I couldn't get any History3: Trapped ones? This might be my roman empire.

More production(s) from Taiwan here: Marry My Dead Body (關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事) | Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (不良執念清除師) |

[a-10st-s0u1]

Me hoping for good things in life and a new NatLouis series. Not that these are mutually exclusive.

u call it being delusional i call it manifesting

[alienwlw]

Chiang Tien as Ai Di | Kiseki: Dear to Me (2023)

[paintedmasks]

Day 22 of the 15 Day BL Challenge

Day 22: Day 2 revisited - Fave Rookie Actor Pairing? - Chen Bowen & Chiang Tien

It's pretty common knowledge that there's an opinion that these two stole the show in Kiseki: Dear To Me and while I do appreciate our main couple, I understand why. I knew certain things before going into the show but I was in no way prepared for just how much they would impress me.

Every single scene had both of them doing not only what was required but going beyond what was expected. It's not easy to be able to portray two characters at different points the way they did. It's quite exceptional when you can rewatch a show and notice each time something new about the acting. Their portrayals are beautifully intricate in a way that they should be proud of.

[casualavocados]

Chiang Tien as AI DI & Chen Bowen as CHEN YI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME textpost memes | part 1/?

[mondstalgia]

I MISSED THE WAY CHEN YI LITERALLY TONGUED AIDI DOWN?

[super-fan]

Ay ciertos tipos de lunares/ manchas en la gente que siempre me llaman la atención. Las del tipo "nos hubieran quemado en la hoguera en otra época", pero la mayoría son pequeños y ubicados en lugares que captan mi atención.

Asi que suelo guardar fotos cuando veo a algun actor/ famoso con alguna de estas y los actores bl no son la excepción.

Y no se si ya haya alguien que lo haya comentado, pero aca dejo mi contribución de los que he visto y tengo en mi galería 🙄 (y seguro agregaré más por que estoy segura de algunos que no tengo registro guardado en foto pero si en la memoria)...

Wilson Liu actor Taiwanes conocido por la mayoría de nosotros por History 3 Voldemort.

Tiene una gran mancha de nacimiento en su pecho.

Louis chiang. Nuestro Ai Di en kisesi dear to me.

Tiene un lunar en su muñeca.

Bible Wichapas. Conocido como la gran bandera roja o Vegas de KinnPorsche.

Ubicado en su glúteo 🙄

Ohm Pawat. De Bad Buddy.

Una mancha en su brazo.

Opal Kritsapatorn. A quien vimos recientemente en 1000 Years Old.

Supongo que todos vemos ese hermoso lunar en su cuello no?

James Supamongkon. Uea en Bed friend.

Tiene un pequeño lunar en su oreja.

Pavel Naret. Babe nuestro alfa especial en Pit Babe.

Tiene varios lunares pero este en su pómulo es del que hablo.

Babe Tanatat. Como Tharn en the Sing.

Tiene ese pequeño lunar en parte inferior del ojo. Es una locura, no puedo dejar de mirarlo.

Billy Patchanon. Como Phaya en The Sing.

Con su lunar en el párpado. ( que hace juego con el de su par jaja)

Aaron Lai. Actor Taiwanes. Conocido por la serie Be loved in house.

Tiene 2 lunares en su mejilla con las que perdería todo el día tratando de unir de diferentes formas. El mismo que tiene unas cicatrices producto de un accidente y que no tiene problema en mostrar. Y si yo me viera como el también presumiria.

Sato Arata actor del bl Japonés Takara-kun to Amagi-kun.

Con un llamativo lunar bajo su ojo.

Tai Thanaphat. Como Gus en Middlemans Love. Es una de las personas que más fotos de lunares tengo,por que tiene muchos y muy lindos. Pero dejo mis favoritos.

El de su mano y su antebrazo.

Y este en su cuello...

Boss Chaikamon. Payu en Love in the air.

Tiene ese lindo lunar sobre sus labios. (Ya se que la foto no le hace justicia, capas lo cambie despues)

Yu Yang. Mi querido Zhou Shu Yi en el drama We Best Love.

con su hermoso lunar, en su hermoso rostro, bajo uno de sus hermosos ojos...

Taro Lin. Que interpreto a Bai Zong Yi en kiseki Dear to me.

Tiene ese lunar en su mejilla. Mismo lunar que beso Fan Ze Rui cuando se reencontraron años después...

Inn Sarin. Como el Dr Wandee. Que estamos viendo actualmente en Wandee Goodday

Lunar en su espalda.

Esto termino siendo muy largo... Y supongo que en el futuro habrá más. Pero este fue un viaje loco por mis imágenes y algo que me gusta, y tengo en común con esta gente.

(Puede haber algún error y obvio malas fotos )

[khaotungsfirst]

MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED??!??

[bunni-bun]

andrew_qio: 三個優質主演，療癒的笑容😊 #愛的奧特萊斯 #姜典#項婕如#黃禮豐 #qio奇想事

(09.01.2021 - the three main stars! via director Andrew Chien)

Leo Huang as Fan Xiao Chuan

Louis Chiang as Zuo You He

Chloe Xiang as Fu Jing Xue

[mariacallous]

Lai Ching-te will be Taiwan’s next president after winning Saturday’s election, ensuring that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will remain in power and dealing a rebuke to Beijing’s wishes for a more China-friendly administration. In the days before the election, Taiwanese voters were flooded with information. Look up, and they saw posters on buses and buildings declaring the virtues of all three candidates and their running mates. Look down, and they got a stream of news, gossip, and opinions from their phones—not all of it true and much of it likely stirred up by internet trolls in China.

Taiwan is one of the world’s most digitally connected countries, and on social media, false posts and videos are reaching thousands of people before platforms can take them down. TikTok was flooded with disinformation accusing Lai of sex scandals, tax evasion, and conspiring to start a war with China. His vice presidential pick, Hsiao Bi-khim, has been accused of secretly holding U.S. citizenship. So has the running mate of Ko Wen-je, the third-party candidate livestreaming his spoiler campaign on YouTube and TikTok.

Researchers have attributed much of the false information to Chinese actors—and rather than blasting pro-China views to Taiwanese voters, they’ve focused on amplifying negative stories about Taiwan’s domestic politics and wedge issues, such as the role of the United States, with the intent of polarizing Taiwanese society.

“Beijing’s cognitive warfare is evolving,” said Tzu-wei Hung, a scholar at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. “Negative narratives are effective not because they will change the election result but because they intensify social conflicts and create a vicious cycle of distrust and hate.”

Taiwan faced a similarly toxic disinformation environment before the 2020 presidential election, and at the time, it fought back—hard. Officials frequently accused China of being behind wide-ranging disinformation campaigns. Police summoned private citizens for posting false stories and levied fines in some instances for violating a law preventing public disorder. The National Communications Commission (NCC) issued a series of fines to the pro-China TV station Chung Tien Television (CTi) for broadcasting false information. Eventually, in December 2020, CTi was taken off the air after the NCC declined to renew its broadcast license.

The government learned quickly that none of it worked.

“If you want to curb disinformation by legal measures, it’s difficult and dangerous,” said Yachi Chiang, a professor at National Taiwan Ocean University specializing in intellectual property and tech law. It “opens a pathway for the government to control speech.”

Taiwan has always been a banner holder of free speech in Asia. In 2020, however, DPP legislators were panicked over the prospect of Chinese election-meddling. President Tsai Ing-wen was riding a wave of global popularity by supporting the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, which had broken out months earlier, giving Beijing every reason to remove her from office or disrupt her legislative majority.

Tsai was reelected in a landslide—but not because her government cracked down on fake news. Many fines levied under the Social Order Maintenance Act, an existing law that was utilized against disinformation peddlers, have since been overturned by the courts.

The NCC’s crusade against CTi hasn’t gone much better. Opposition politicians used its removal from the airwaves to hammer DPP politicians as enemies of free speech. The NCC, at the time, argued that CTi had failed to adhere to basic fact-checking standards and could not ensure impartiality from outside influence—a clear reference to its owner, the domestically unloved Tsai Eng-meng, a snack food tycoon with extensive business interests in China and a track record of pro-unification statements.

In May 2023, a Taipei court ruled against the NCC’s decision to shut down CTi, saying it had failed to provide adequate reasoning for its decision. At present, CTi remains off the air—and its request to have its license renewed by the court was rejected—but the NCC has been ordered to review its own decision and provide stiffer reasoning. “You need something stronger to sustain your ruling,” Chiang said.

Taiwanese authorities have successfully prosecuted citizens who received funding from China to publish fake news. But in general, politicians began to realize that moving through the judicial system “would be slow,” Chiang said. “The decisions might be disappointing. The results might be less effective.”

Just after the 2020 election, however, Taiwan’s government found a better way to combat disinformation when the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe. Taiwan was the first country to alert the World Health Organization of the presence of a coronavirus in Wuhan and then introduce travel restrictions and quarantine protocols.

Public officials also began releasing accurate, easily digestible information as quickly as possible, before disinformation could reach people’s phone screens. Chen Shih-chung, the health minister at the time, held press conferences each afternoon, earning him the nickname “Minister Clock.” His ministry, along with the social media accounts of Tsai and Premier Su Tseng-chang, posted colorful memes sharing data on the pandemic and extolling the virtues of masking and hand-washing.

It was a triumph of public transparency that paid off handsomely. Taiwan saw just 823 COVID-19 cases in all of 2020, despite its close proximity to the pandemic’s epicenter.

It also helped politicians realize that “you can’t count on laws to tackle disinformation,” Chiang said. “You need to create your own information.”

“Free speech is not the cost but the key to counteract disinformation,” said Hung, who noted that in 2022, Freedom House found that countries that protect free expression and have robust civic society groups do a better job at mitigating false information.

Taiwan has tried other forms of a more open approach. Although it banned the Chinese-owned video platform TikTok from government apps in 2022, Taiwan has not followed countries such as India in issuing a general proscription on the app despite concerns that Beijing can influence content. About one-quarter of Taiwan’s population uses the app, including a host of popular influencers and celebrities.

Taiwan also has a network of strong civic fact-checking organizations that work with social media companies to combat disinformation. One of them, MyGoPen, recently started collaborating directly with TikTok to correct false posts about the 2024 election.

No matter who is in power, politicians seem to acutely understand that the best way to combat false information about them is to push out their own narratives on social media. “If you are popular on the internet, that’s more important than [popularity on] traditional media channels,” Chiang said.

Lai’s win on Saturday is not an outright victory against disinformation itself—both Chinese and domestic actors will surely continue to create confusion and distrust whenever they can. It did, however, show that Taiwanese voters can’t easily be swayed, as long as public officials do their part to communicate rapidly, positively, and honestly.