Asian Drama

The Chen, Lin, and Pan families reside in the Beijing hutongs. Spanning four decades of China's reform and opening-up period, their lives have undergone tremendous change.

The Chen family is an ordinary household where the son, Chen Huan, rises to become a renowned economist, while their daughter Chen Qing faces the challenges of re-employment after losing her job. The youngest daughter, Chen Xiao Ou, represents the new generation of women. The Lin family, a high-ranking cadre household, sees their son Lin Yi Da transition from a rural life to working in government and business, and their daughter Lin Ping Ping achieving her dreams of studying abroad. The Pan family's son Liang Zi is unemployed. His mother Pan Tao Hao has pinner her hopes on him and is disappointed by his lack of ambition.

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Episodes: 48

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Aired: May 30, 2024 - Jun 20, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Duration: 45 min.

Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiao Lu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town’s saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bonding with coworkers, flirting with girls, and refusing to give in completely to the expectations of those around him.

As Lu Xiao Lu finds his way, a startling portrait of an economically expanding China comes into view; the propaganda of a common goal gives way to a bottom-line system that he sees as indifferent to individual happiness. But thanks to the relationships he develops, Lu Xiao Lu decides to fight for the life he wants.

(Source: Goodreads)

Adapted from the novel "Young Babylon" (少年巴比伦) by Lu Nei (路内).

Episodes: 26

Duration: 45 min.

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Ratings: 8.3