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Taiwanese TV finds success with romance
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese television is filled with fast-paced, racy dramas such as To Be a Witch, a popular Japanese series about a high school teacher who sleeps with one of her students, runs away with him and nearly dies while carrying his baby.
The Associated Press
But if this is what viewers really want, then a recently aired old-fashioned love story about courtship and slow-brewing love should have flopped. Instead, April Rhansady was a big hit, and surprised even its makers.
Other prime-time programing includes bawdy variety shows with scantily-dressed pop singers, American action movies and sitcoms.
"Nowadays, people fall in love quickly and break up quickly," said Wu Yun-yu, an April Rhapsody fan and a senior at the elite National Taiwan University. "Maybe love runs deeper when it flows slowly like water in a stream."
Many viewers said the series, set in the 1920s, spoke to their craving for Chinese traditions of romance that have been lost in the chatter of e-mail or cell phones and swallowed up by Westernized dating practices of the one-night-stand variety.
Executives at Taiwan's Public Television Service said they made the series because they wanted to introduce their viewers to literature. They never dreamed it would attract a big audience.
The drama is about the tragic life of the brilliant Chinese poet Hsu Chih-mo. He reluctantly accepted an arranged marriage in China, but fell in love with a Chinese art student, Lin Hui-yin, while studying at Cambridge University. He woes her in simple ways, holding her hand, reciting poetry and taking long strolls with her.
The 20-episode show became a hot topic on Internet chat rooms and has been repeated several times on public television.
Hsu divorces his wife. But the poet never marries his lover because her mother won't allow her to marry a divorced man. Eventually, the 36-year-old writer dies in a plane crash.
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