My Favorite Chinese Dramas

my favorite xianxia

my favorite historical  

it's as if someone sat down and said, "Let's write the Chinese version of Pride and Prejudice, a complex multi-generational saga of several families, an indictment of concubinage, and a masterful examination of how women capture power and self-determination in a system that is largely created to deny them those very qualities. Oh, and let's have ALL OF THAT in one show!" and then they actually did it 

my favorite wuxia

my favorite xuanhuan

my favorite melodrama

gave me a fresh perspective on historical marriages of convenience and the women who were handed over to antagonistic enemy states as symbols of peaceable collaboration or temporary non-aggression pacts

my favorite mini-drama

like nothing I've seen before or since

my favorite time travel drama

my favorite youth drama (Taiwanese)

my favorite contemporary