Playlist

Book

Anti-graft

Chinese author Zhou Meisen's 2016 best-seller In the Name of People has seen a surge in popularity with the broadcast of its TV adaptation of the same title since March. The novel, with its vivid picture of Chinese officialdom in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign, has topped the best-selling list of fiction on Douban, one of the country's biggest websites for reviews on books, movies and TV programs, in recent weeks. Literary critics praise Zhou's novel for its portrayal on challenges in the battle against corruption and in-depth exploration of what makes a public servant's soul dark.

Movie

Uygur actress

Dilraba Dilmurat, a popular Uygur actress on TV, made her movie debut in Ao Jiao & Pian Jian (Pride and Prejudice). Based on an online novel, the film features her together with Zhang Yunlong and Gao Weiguang. The movie, now being screened on the mainland, is about an online novelist's romance with an heir to a wealthy family business. Dilmurat, 25, shot to fame with the revolutionary TV series Anarhan in 2013. But it was Eternal Love, based on the online novel Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms that gave her stardom.

Game

Nier: Automata

Nier: Automata is a game that refuses to settle for what you expect. Yoko Taro, creator of Drakengard and its spin-off Nier, has gained a following for his distinctive approach to game design. Automata takes place far into the future of our planet, one where the real action has happened. Aliens attacked Earth with an army of machines, forcing humans to flee to the moon, leaving behind androids to fight off the invaders. You play as 2B, a member of an elite android unit called YoRHa, whose goal is the eradication of the aliens and machines for the glory of humans. This is a game that jumps from funny to emotional, from action-packed to slow and methodical, from 3-D to 2-D, all at a moment's notice. It's a game with questions to ask-not necessarily with the intention of providing answers, but rather hoping that you'll begin to ask them yourself.

China Daily - Agencies

(China Daily USA 04/26/2017 page10)