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Shining For One Thing
''Shining for One Thing'' (), is a 2022 Chinese romance fantasy mystery coming-of-age streaming television series, starring Qu Chuxiao and Zhang Jianing. The series was released on January 26, 2022 on IQIYI. Synopsis Lin Beixing, an "experienced girl" who is about to enter her 30s, missed out on achieving her dream of love as her boyfriend, Zhan Yu, breaks the contract, and her life and work have become a mess. However, not sure if this is the God playing tricks on her, Lin Beixing returned to the age of eighteen. The third year of high school is a nightmare, but Lin Beixing decided to retake the college entrance examination and get rid of Zhan Yu, to live anew for herself. However, Lin Beixing's sweet dream was dashed by a boy called Zhang Wansen. The accidental encounter of Zhang Wansen after the college entrance examination became the switch to end Lin Beixing's time and space journey. Lin Beixing began to investigate the cause of Zhang Wansen's death and embarked on a diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage is featured. These films make the search for romantic love the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Television
Fantasy television is a genre of television programming featuring elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds. Fantasy television programs are often based on tales from mythology and folklore, or are adapted from fantasy stories in other media. The boundaries of fantasy television often overlap with science fiction and horror but also realistic fiction. Genre and subgenres Similar to the difficulty faced by scholars of fantasy film, classifying a television program as fantasy can be somewhat problematic given the fluid boundaries of the genre. Not all programs with fantastic elements may qualify as fantasy. Children's programs in particular often feature fantastic elements that do not qualify the program as fantasy, such as the giant talking avian Big Bird of the popular PBS series ''Sesame Street''. Nevertheless, some critics classify certain children's programs that feature traditional fantasy elements such as barbarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Fiction
Mystery is a genre fiction, fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains wiktionary:mysterious, mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character is often a detective (such as Sherlock Holmes), who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. Some mystery books are non-fiction. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. Mystery fiction can involve a supernatural mystery in which the solution does not have to be logical and even in which there is no crime involved. This usage was common in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming-of-age Story
In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age". Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers. The ''Bildungsroman'' is a specific subgenre of coming-of-age story. The plot points of coming of age stories are usually emotional changes within the character(s) in question. ''Bildungsroman'' In literary criticism, coming-of-age novels and ''Bildungsroman'' are sometimes interchangeable, but the former is usually a wider genre. The ''Bildungsroman'' (from the German words ''Bildung'', "education", alternatively "forming" and ''Roman'', "novel") is further characterized by a number of formal, topical, and thematic features. It focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qu Chuxiao
Qu Chuxiao (, born 28 December 1994) is a Chinese actor. Early life and education Qu received his bachelor's degree from the Central Academy of Drama in 2017. Career Qu made his acting debut in 2016 with a leading role in the romance web series ''My Fair Lady''. He then starred in the historical fiction dramas ''Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace'', playing Yongqi, and '' Rule the World'', playing Dorgon. In 2018, Qu starred in the wuxia web series ''Bloody Romance'', playing the male lead role Chang'An, a shadow assassin. Qu gained acclaim for his performance and experienced a rise in popularity. Qu debuted on the big screen with a minor role in the comedy film ''Father and Son'' which premiered in 2017. He then starred in the youth drama films ''Twenty'', ''Graduating'', and ''Oh Boy!''. In 2019, Qu starred in China's first interstellar science fiction film ''The Wandering Earth'', playing the lead role. The film was a major success and became one of the highest-grossing film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Jianing
Zhang Jianing (, born 26 May 1989), also known as Karlina Zhang, is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles as Lin Beixing in Shining for One Thing and Muyun Yanshuang in Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy. Career In 2009, Zhang debuted with a supporting role in the television series ''Auntie Duohe''. In 2010, Zhang became known to the audience after starring in the family drama ''A Beautiful Daughter-in-Law Era'' . In 2011, Zhang starred in the youth inspirational drama ''Ant Race's Struggle '' as the female lead. In 2012, Zhang starred in the family drama ''Father's Love '' and won the LeTV Awards for Outstanding Actress. The same year, she starred in the period melodrama ''Family On The Go'' directed by Kong Sheng, portraying a village girl. Zhang won the Best New Actress at the Tongniu Awards for her performance, as well as the Most Popular Actress award at the Jiangsu Television Awards. In 2014, Zhang starred in the youth comedy film ''The Struggle of 80 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming-of-age Stories
In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age". Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are typically teenagers. The ''Bildungsroman'' is a specific subgenre of coming-of-age story. The plot points of coming of age stories are usually emotional changes within the character(s) in question. ''Bildungsroman'' In literary criticism, coming-of-age novels and ''Bildungsroman'' are sometimes interchangeable, but the former is usually a wider genre. The ''Bildungsroman'' (from the German words ''Bildung'', "education", alternatively "forming" and ''Roman'', "novel") is further characterized by a number of formal, topical, and thematic features. It focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Television
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aerial systems, cable television, and/or satellite television systems. History Up until the 1990s, it was not thought possible that a television programme could be squeezed into the limited telecommunication bandwidth of a copper telephone cable to provide a streaming service of acceptable quality, as the required bandwidth of a digital television signal was around 200Mbit/s, which was 2,000 times greater than the bandwidth of a speech signal over a copper telephone wire. Streaming services were only made possible as a result of two major technological developments: MPEG ( motion-compensated DCT) video compression and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) data transmission. The first worldwide live-streaming event was a radio live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesar Wu
Wu Xize (, born 19 October 1996), also known as Caesar Wu, is a Chinese actor, singer and model. He is best known for his role as Ximen Yan in the television series ''Meteor Garden'' (2018), which propelled him to international fame. Early life Caesar Wu was born on 19 October 1996 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. Career Caesar rose to fame with his debut role as Ximen Yan in the 2018 television series ''Meteor Garden'', the remake of popular Taiwanese drama series ''Meteor Garden'' and based on the Japanese shōjo manga series written by Yoko Kamio. Caesar appeared in Harper's Bazaar China with his ''Meteor Garden'' costars Dylan Wang, Darren Chen and Connor Leong in the November issue. In 2018, he participated in Hunan Satellite TV's variety show ''Happy Camp'' and CCTV Sports Channel's football-themed talk show ''Qi Tan Eleven''. In 2019, Caesar was cast in the youth historical drama ''The Chang'an Youth'', and historical romance drama ''General's Lady''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fu Jing (singer)
Fu Jing (, born June 29, 1995) is a Chinese singer and actress signed under Banana Culture Music Co., Ltd. After finishing tenth in Tencent's girl group survival show ''Produce 101'', she debuted as a member of Rocket Girls 101. Early life Fu was born on June 29, 1995, in Shaoyang, Hunan. She is the second child in the family. She has an elder sister, Fu Ying, a younger sister and a younger brother. She started working in 2013, at the age of 18. She tried being a dance teacher and yoga trainer besides others. Besides working, she also entered Xiangnan University where she completed her scholarship. In 2016, she participated in the Trainee18 recruitment and became a trainee under Banana Culture Music Co., Ltd.. She appeared in Hunan Television television series Happy Camp's advertisement screen and the Youku series titled Mars Intelligence Agency. Career Trainee In 2017, she officially became a member of Trainee18. She first performed with the members of Trainee18 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
