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Jun 2023
44m 43s

Chinese TV PilotTalk: Farmers, Murders, ...

JORDAN SCHNEIDER
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We're talking Chinese TV this week on ChinaTalk! Hollywood writer Trey Kollmer and ChinaTalk editor Irene Zhang discuss farming reality tv, a dongbei murder, and some super creative animated content out of Bilibili.

Farmer show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fklN-OnYuGc

Dongbei show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs0OJVemJz4

Animated show: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0gnw1pNh6C1yA3EUU-aQrOjI3hvBC7oQ

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