Best mandarin TV series TOP 25
The feeling of "best" has changed with age. In 2021, I made adjustments to this list for the first time in 11 years since its creation.What is left is still worth watching repeatedly or carefully understanding its meaning.
Since 2022, I've handpicked a few additions to this list that meet my criteria for the best of the best.
Since 2022, I've handpicked a few additions to this list that meet my criteria for the best of the best.
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- StarsGuoqiang TangYanjun SunGuoan BaoIn 2nd century China, chaos reigns as warlords divide a land facing famine, drought and invasion. In times of disorder, heroes emerge.
- StarsGuanhua LiangYuanyuan ZhuXiulin XuThe ups and downs of daily life of the bottom blue-collar in China
- StarsWen JiangJi WangXiaopin YanA Chinese cello artist who grew up under the educational background of Mao era came to New York to make a living. During doing business in New York, his career, love, and family had both gains and losses.After accepting the educational environment of the Mao era, the story of an entrepreneur who went abroad with a typical case
- StarsBaoguo ChenSaifei HePeiqi LiuThis Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Qing dynasty.A history of the rise and fall of a large family with love and justice. Everything can't be described normally when a party came in the late of season 2.
- StarsJie DengFenqiang OuyangXiaoxu ChenThe fortunes of the wealthy and influential Jia family based in the capital, and their eventual downfall. Adapted from the famous novel by Cao Xueqin.
- StarsDaoming ChenKe BiDa YingFang is a returned overseas student without any academic credential. He moves in different ladies for love and marriage, but results in a failed life.Sorrows and joys of traditional Chinese scholars in 1920s-1930s.
- CreatorLingu WangJin XuStarsTing MeiSaifei HeYan Su
- StarsAngie ChiuRay LuiDan LauJust before the WWII, at the verge of Japanese general invasion to China, XU Wenqiang, a disenchanted college graduate, went to Shanghai and met DING Li, a simple street merchant. The two soon found themselves involved in gang fights involuntarily. By chance XU saved the daughter of gang boss FENG Jingyao, and obtained both the love from the daughter and the admiration from the father. When XU found out FENG was conspiring with the Japanese, XU killed the Jap spy and went on the run just before the wedding with Miss FENG took place. She followed him down to HK, his father's killers too. They killed XU's uncle, thus XU declined the supplication to follow her to Paris. Miss FENG, heartbroken, married DING, now the new gang boss and madly in love with her. XU avenged his uncle by killing FENG, and just when he decided to pursue Miss FENG who was in Paris alone, the gunshots from Jap soldiers put an end to his life. The general invasion of Japanese troops to China began...
- CreatorShuo WangStarsYou GeLiping LüYaohua HouThe drama depicts a world called "guidelines for editorial department, six different characters are understanding, communication and collision between the helpfulness of the editor, the description of their generation and society after the contact of every hue story.The working rhythm of Beijing editorial office in the early 1990s, the conflicts between new and old employees, and various stories in the context of reform and opening up.
- StarsStephen ChowWah YuenKien ShihNaive Kwok Ching and selfish Wong Yung's adventures lead to the creation of powerful Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre. Manipulated due to kindness, Kwok influences Wong who aids his quest to defend Han Dynasty against Mongolian invasion.
- StarsBaotian LiGang WangJie DengLegend of Liu Yong - a smart and conscientious official in the period of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.
- StarsXingyu WenDandan SongLixin YangA story about 1990's a six-member family and their neighbors, relatives and friends of cross-section society in Beijing, with reflection of city life's way in mainland China.It is said to be inspired by "Growing Pains", the first family sitcom in mainland China.
- StarsWenli JiangJing LiangYing NaFour sworn female followers gather periodically at Tan's small book bar and share their emotional lives respectively. All of the four are looking for their love of dreaming.The lines are dramatic, Chinese expression of feminism and still seems avant-garde in 2020s.
- StarsHonglei SunChen YaoFeng ZuWhile working in the KMT intelligence station in Tianjin, a Communist undercover agent achieved a series of incredible feats with the help of his stand-in wife.
- StarsKaili ZhangXuejian LiMeiying HuangSet in early 1980s in Beijing. Liu Huifang is a young woman grew up and still lives in an alley in Beijing. Liu falls in love with a young guy who comes from an intellectual family in Shanghai, and marries him. But their married life is always stumbling. Song Dacheng is a co-worker of Liu who loves her dumbly, and always helps her with family affairs.
- StarsJingchun WangZishan RongPengyuan ShiA story that follows three children who unintentionally film a murder scene. As they become involve with the suspect, it opens up a case that is far more complicated than it looks and entraps several families into an unpredictable outcome.It has subverted the idealized expectations of Chinese parents for good children. Children are also human beings, and they may also be criminals.
- StarsAlyssa ChiaSheng-hao WenKang Ren Wu"The World Between Us" is a 10-part, hour-long series that follows the aftermath of a mass shooting where the fates of all parties involved - the killer, the victims, the victims' families, the media and the defense teams are intertwined.A story that explores human rights and media conscience, reflecting the use of emotions and rational handling in the face of criminals.
- StarsKei GambitGe HuTu-Te-Ha-MengStory about a son's search for his family's lost honor.
- StarsYing-Hsuan HsiehSara YuBamboo Chu-Sheng ChenA woman in her sixties, raised in a Chinese Herbal store in Taiwan. Now she must navigate the worlds of Love, marriage and human relationships.The growth experience of ordinary Taiwanese, warm family atmosphere and affection, full of love and humor.
- StarsJingfei GuoZhuo TanBingyan YanSpy couple live in their midlife crisis and are controlled by higher authorities based oversea. National security agency is chasing them and higher authorities is pushing them, where can the struggling couple go?For the first time, I saw the hard daily life of a couple spy and their state of split personality. Although the final outcome is Chinese-style political correctness, other parts full of surprise and touching coexist.
- StarsChun SunZhong LüYonggui LiSet in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The Qing Dynasty goes extinct and the Republic of China is born.A serious and objective, neutral historical perspective that can serve as an education in democratic values.