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At China's Feitian Awards in Yantai, Song Jia became the first actress to win all three major television prizes for a single role, while Wang Renjun's best-actor upset for a war epic set off a cross-drama celebration on Weibo.
Lanxiang Rugu, the period drama topping CCTV-8's prime-time slot, ended a major character's run this week — and his actor's 1,100-character farewell letter, answered in character by his co-star, has turned a television death into the week's most-touched fandom moment.
"Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant," starring Shen Teng as a Chinese cook in Iraq, will represent mainland China in the Best International Film race at the 99th Academy Awards. The submission caps a summer of fan recreations of the film's signature rice dish.
Taiwan's Fubon Guardians dropped the Taiwan-born star from a first-pitch appearance after his Tiananmen Square National Day video, citing his health. Wu replied that he holds to his position even if it makes no money, and his fans went digging up decade-old posts to prove it.
At his 2026 Mars stadium concert, pop star Hua Chenyu told the audience that despair does not always need a reason, described researching bipolar disorder, and asked fans not to dismiss a friend's nameless suffering as 'moaning without an illness' — the very phrase that is the stigma.
Chinese short-video feeds are filling with AI-generated micro-dramas, and the genre's human actors say they feel it first — a shift the industry's quarterly regulator showcase has now put on the record, with four of twelve autumn titles AI-made.
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