Asian Drama

The crisis of middle age hits Chun Mei in waves. She begins to think about how she can deal with the pressures of life and how to accept that she's ageing.

From everyone else's perspective, Zhang Chun Mei's life is perfect. Her son has been admitted to a top school due to his excellent grades; her husband is a professor with outstanding credentials; Chun Mei herself is up for promotion as an editor of their magazine. Chun Mei has a house, a car and abundant savings; but in fact, only she knows her own suffering.

Middle age crisis came without warning, what's worse, Chun Mei's husband Wei Qiang has disappeared. After putting together all the clues, Chun Mei has enough reason to suspect that her husband is cheating on her. When Wei Qiang seems to have thought things through and finally goes home, he asks for a divorce.

Adapted from the novel "Shu Nian" (熟年) by Yi Bei (伊北).

One hundred years since the founding of the Communist Party of China, Faith Makes Great tells stories from different times in history that chronicle the people's endless struggle to realize their dream of rejuvenating the nation.

The key themes are as follows:

"Ice and Fire": Shougang workers shift operations towards ice-surfacing for the Winter Olympics

"173 meters": Lanyu Railway Construction

"Rock Sugar": The story of Deng Jia, the chief commander of atomic bomb theory design

"The Next Hundred Years": Restoration of the Forbidden City cultural relics

"Family": Medical Aid Team

"Button": the first small private business

"Time Train": High-speed rail construction

"Your Eyes": Protecting the Yunnan Golden Monkey

Due to an incident, An Ding unleashes a miraculous ability to turn inanimate objects into people, but only for the duration of 24 hours. As the things in An Ding's house become human, it starts them on a bizarre yet dangerous adventure.

The year was 1930, when Shanghai is known as the Paris of the East with a thriving economy. However, behind the glamorous songs and dances, cruelty and terror gets out of control. From the Marco Polo Bridge incident to the Battle of Shanghai, the Chinese Army fought bravely against the Imperial Japanese Army. In the city, the Japanese army destroys many media outlets among Chinese troops, even private radio stations from Britain and France must register to operate. The person in charge of such operations is a Japanese agent Zhang Lanxin who proudly proclaims that under the Shanghai sky, only Japan-approved stations can survive. Then one day, Li Xia accepts the mission to rebuild a new means of communication for his compatriots.

Mia, a teenager, works as a cleaner in a motel in a small seaside town. One night, while manning the reception for her co-worker Lili, she witnesses an assault of two 12-year-old schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Through the surveillance TV, she sees the man forces himself into the girls' room and records the whole incident with her hand phone. Mia keeps quiet for fear of losing her job. However, for one of the victims, Xiao Wen realizes that her troubles have only just begun. As Mia and Xiao Wen find themselves in ever harrowing circumstances and nowhere to run, they have to work together to find their own way out.