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When I Fly Towards You

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023

When I Fly Towards You (China, 2023)

Director: Mao Deshu

Writers: Yue An & Tao Kaixin (based on a novel by Zhu Yi)

Mini-review:

I think I'm a bit in love with this drama. It's funny, cause I didn't really vibe with the first few episodes and I almost dropped it. Thankfully, something just clicked at around episode 7 or 8, and from there it was wonderful. I finished this show feeling I had been there with these characters, like I was another member of their friend group, going through all those things with them. Do you know how difficult it is to create that sort of atmosphere and feeling? It's really hard to find something like that, so I couldn't help but treasure every second I spent with these characters. Seriosuly, there's something so warm and nostalgic and lovely about When I Fly Towards You. I feel like it will be a long while before I get over it, and that's the highest sort of praise I can think of.

P.S. I beg you, Chinese drama producers, stop spoiling the whole thing in the opening song video 😭😭😭

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CHEN SISI

[guzhuangheaven]

Legend of Zhen Huan :: Chen Sisi as Cao Qinmo

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W Magazine China The Fashion Issue 2023 Covers

Credits

Model Liu Wen, Photographer Leslie Zhang, Editor in Chief Mix Wei, Creative Cathy Dong, Styling Austin Feng, Fashion Editor Jessica Jiang, Text Chuyu Wang, Font Design rainreinreign, Make-Up Artist He lei, Hair Stylist Xuemeng Liu, Set Designer Sisi, Producer Kenan, Manicurist Chen Yi, Magazine W Magazine China.

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PHL / Where You Left Off

Where You Left Off curated by Tally de Orellana and David Ayala-Alfonso April 10th - May 6th, 2023

Opening reception: April 13th 6:00 PM Live Events at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia: April 15th 12 - 4 PM

Connecting artists from the Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) network with Mexico's most creative minds, we are thrilled to present "Where You Left Off." This international collaboration and exhibition initiative bridges artists across borders, bringing dialogue and exchange to the forefront.

This project draws together twenty artists, across six cities and two countries. Ten artists from the TSA network (Philadelphia, Chicago, LA, Greenville, and New York) have been connected with ten artists in and around Mexico City. Over the past year, the artists have been exchanging ideas and insights about their practices. The curators have closely followed the artists' virtual conversations and correspondences, as the collective has progressively shared where they’ve left things off.

While these exchanges have been virtually broadcasted on our online platform, we are thrilled to present the resulting work from these ten collaborations in TSA's gallery at the Crane Arts building in Philadelphia. This exhibition will be followed by a second iteration taking place in Mexico City, showcasing the next episode of this ongoing artistic dialogue.

Participating Artists:

Ulrik Lopez Aurora Noreña Chantal Peñalosa Mariana Sánchez Hoyos Juan Carlos León Aura Arreola Ramiro Chaves María Mendez Lorena Mal María Naidich Rachel de Cuba Yael Eban Alexis Granwell Emilio Maldonado Alex Paik Sisi Chen Cydney Lewis Hirona Matsuda Alisa Ochoa Kara Mshinda

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Great Photos Of Sisi Chen

[purr3351]

miedo me da, meterme en el fandom de MDZS de aqui, sobretodo cuando soy apologise!Jiang Chen y Xue Yang

Peor aun si soy XiCheng shipper y XiaoXue

-alto miedo, sisi...

[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girl of the night is: Chen Sisi from Ye Luoli!✧・ﾟ:*

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@sisipaintscats

SiSi Chen

My thesis project 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 is on view at 205 Hudson St. Gallery (cross streets Canal & Hudson) through this Sun 3/28, as part of Hunter MFA’s Spring 2021 thesis exhibition 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘮. So happy to be showing my work alongside @ccovucci @matildebenmayor @pvogeler . ⠀ Please make a viewing appt: tinyurl.com/somegreatersum if you would like to stop by (link in bio.) I’ll be here daily 10am-7pm but dm if you’re coming— would love to see everyone! 

[golden-china]

2020 Chinese Senior Individual Nationals (1)

Chen Yanfei He Licheng || Lv Jiaqi Lin Zihuan Liu Yongtong || Wang Jingying Tang Xijing Wei Xiaoyuan || Yin Sisi Wang Xiaodi Source: Geniustellar, 嫣子

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Unseen Luck

Sisi had finally managed to get out of her home, even if it was just for a little. Well, home was a bit of an overstatement. It was really a prison. Since Meng Yao bought her off for what she had done. Her Meng Yao. The one that she helped raise with her best friend. The one that had been accepted in Lanling with his father. The one that had used her to help kill his father. The one that has been putting her in this prison in order to stay quiet.

The guards that are stationed outside of her prison were given specific orders to keep her inside. And if she had managed to leave the premises three times, she would be killed. This was her first time, and she needed the time.

Sisi glances behind her as she hears some of the guards yelling for her. She’s losing them as much as they are gaining. It’s utterly frightening. She rushes past a few stalls in the market, which probably isn’t the best idea. Being in a highly-populated area will help lose her within the crowd, but she still has the scars on her face that make her “unique.” Once she makes a right turn into an alley, she realizes that it is a dead-end. Once she gets to the end of the alleyway, guards move to the entrance of Meng Yao had been really thoughtful when keeping her silent.

The guards at the end of the alley notice her and begin heading towards her, hands on their swords. That isn’t a good sign. They’ll probably beat her, and it wouldn’t be the first time. Sisi used to be a prostitute, a great one at that.

Once the guards get closer, they start cursing at her.

“Get back to your house, whore. Chief Cultivator Jin has shown you mercy and this is how you repay him?”

One motions to backhand her, before a man in tattered, gray clothing jumps down from the roofs onto them. The sound of chains echo throughout the alley way as the man attacked the others. It was a very quick fight, seeming almost unfair putting the guards against whoever this man was. Once the guards are all killed, the man in chains turns around and that’s when Sisi gasps. It’s the Ghost General.

“Aren’t you supposed to be dead?” Sisi quickly closes her mouth. For all she knows, he’s about to kill her.

Something happens with his face, a look, that might be a smile. “I could say the same about you. Are you Madame Sisi?”

Sisi nods, looking astonished. What the Jin had said, what her boy had said, they were all off from the man in front of her.

“I -uh- I guess I should be. Um, may I help you?” Well. The man in front of her, the Ghost General, was not going to kill her. At least it seemed that way.

“Oh, yes! Um, so would you want to be free of your prison?”

Sisi looks astonished once again. “I would like to be, yes. But what’s the cost?” Sisi was once a prostitute, a famous one at that. She knew that great things came with a price. And sometimes the great things were worth the prices.

The Ghost General starts to fidget with his hands. Oh, his nails need to be trimmed a little. Honestly, he could go for a makeover. He wouldn’t look so scary. “Well, there is suspicion that the current Chief Cultivator had killed his father. Of course, there is no proof as there were no remaining witnesses. A real shame.” Again, a quick change of subject, but one that didn’t seem generally related. Unless you were one of those witnesses.

“I - I was there. Would you need me to testify?” The Ghost General smiles slightly and nods.

“That would be great Madame Sisi. However, we’ll need to keep you safe. The Oriole has gotten paranoid about his plans, so you’ll come back home with me!”

Sisi nods, and for once, doesn’t feel regret about what she’s about to do. “You know what, Mr. General. I’ll go with you.”

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EAST ASIAN FEM ... C - D

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On Privilege and Parallels: MianMian and SiSi, Wei WuXian and Jin GuangYao

Aka two minor characters who happen to be some of the only female characters who survive MDZS. Granted a lot of characters don’t survive MDZS, but it’s definitely lopsided gender-wise. However, no story is perfect. 

(brb crying forever)

Anyways, what struck me while rereading certain parts of MDZS after watching The Untamed was how these seemingly very minor characters actually have quite important thematic roles. On the surface, both MianMian and SiSi appear to be plot devices as neither really has a character arc and yet both play important roles in two of the novel’s turning points: Wei WuXian, Jin ZiXuan, and Lan WangJi saving MianMian essentially kicks off the Sunshot Campaign, and SiSi and BiCao’s stories turn the tides against Jin GuangYao. But these characters have a lot of similarities, and these similarities reflect on their respective foilings with the main protagonist and final antagonist (Wei WuXian for MianMian and Jin GuangYao for SiSi). 

In the cave, MianMian is targeted by JiaoJiao purely because JiaoJiao is jealous. After she survives the attempt to tie her up and use her as bait, she is then captured and JiaoJiao tries to burn her face off. Wei WuXian intervenes, getting his flesh branded in the process. 

And what’s worth noting is that we see this precise situation later on through SiSi. A merchant’s wife was jealous and had her face cut seven or eight times, leaving her scarred and unable to work. 

What’s thematic about this is that it relates to what Wei WuXian observes: society is always going to find a villain.

Instead of JiaoJiao taking her anger out on Wen Chao, or the merchant’s wife on the merchant, they target the objects of their respective partners’ affections. (It’s also worth noting that JiaoJiao is actually a mistress anyways, not Wen Chao’s wife.) In these situations, MianMian and SiSi have considerably less power than JiaoJiao or the merchant’s wife; regarding MianMian, she’s noted to be “the daughter of a servant,” regarding SiSi, obviously, she was a prostitute and we’ve seen how society treats a well-known and educated prostitute like Meng Shi. We can only imagine how they’d treat SiSi. 

Along these lines, Wei WuXian empathizes with Jin GuangYao towards the end of the novel, and observes much the same:

These stories and rumors were indeed familiar. Wei WuXian recalled how back then countless people told stories of him kidnapping a thousand virgins to his demonic cave at Burial Mound, ravishing them day and night to cultivate the dark path. He found it somewhat funny, Fine. No matter what, the things they said about me were definitely better than what they’re saying about Jin GuangYao.

Jin GuangYao was not the villain society claims he is; he did not build a temple to himself as they observe, but for his mother: a scorned prostitute who lived a life of sacrifice to give him a chance:

As one sect leader saw the features of the Guanyin statue, he first paused in surprise, then pointed at it for others to see as though he found something new and interesting, “Look at its face! Doesn’t it look like Jin GuangYao?”

Everyone mused after they looked, “It’s his face indeed! Why would Jin GuangYao make such a thing?”

Sect Leader Yao, “To declare himself a god with wild arrogance, of course.”

“Arrogant indeed, then, hahaha.”

Wei WuXian thought to himself, No, not necessarily.

Jin GuangYao’s mother was seen as the lowest prostitutes, so he decided to carve a Guanyin statue with his mother’s appearance, receiving the worship of tens of thousands.

But there was no use in saying all that. Nobody knew with more clarity than Wei WuXian that nobody would care and nobody would believe him. Anything related to Jin GuangYao would be given the most malicious conjectures and passed through the mouths of the crowd.

And that’s another parallel between MianMian, Wei WuXian, SiSi, and to a lesser extent Jin GuangYao as well (I’ll get into where he differs later). MianMian, Wei WuXian, and SiSi will stand up for what they believe is right, for the people they care for, no matter who stands against them. MianMian narrowly avoided the social implications of getting her face ruined, as Wei WuXian observes:

Wei WuXian, “It’s not like I had any other choice, right?... MianMian is a girl, and quite a pretty girl, at that. If she was blind in an eye or such a thing gets onto her face, it wouldn’t be able to come off for the rest of her life. How bad would that be?”

Lan WangJi spoke in a thin voice, “The thing on your body right now will not be able to come off for the rest of your life either.”

Wei WuXian, “That’s different. It’s not on the face. And I’m a man—what am I scared of?”

These are implicitly gendered as well. Yet she chooses to throw her reputation away anyways to shame her sect for their treatment of Wei WuXian. Nie MingJue even observes "The woman has much more backbone than the mob of her sect” after they again judge her on the basis of her gender:

“There’s no need for me to say anything. You know, deep down, and we know too. You fell for him back in the cave of the Xuanwu just because he flirted with you? You’re still arguing for him, calling white black no matter how irrational it is. Ha, women will always be women.”

SiSi too stood up for Meng Shi when all the other prostitutes were badmouthing her, when she was humiliated, and challenged the men who were gawking at the humiliation:

[they were] chuckling as they told the story of the poor old woman to their clients just like AnXin did. Only one of the ladies squeezed through the doors. She took off the gauze robe that was so flimsy to begin with, revealing half of her full, snowy breasts enwrapped by a crimson slip, her waist was exceptionally thin as well. She was more than eye-catching and everyone hurried to take a look at her.

The lady spat, cursing, “Keep on looking, you bastards! Do you have the right to look at someone like me? With each look you gotta pay—where’s the money?! Come, where’s the money?!”

As she cursed, she reached out and asked the bystanders for money. The crowd dispersed somewhat, and she threw the robe she took off onto the woman, the two of them staggering into the main hall...

She challenges society thereby, pointing out that if they’re going to gawk at a woman’s fate, they might as well pay up, because they’re the ones who employ the women in the brothel, they’re the reason they resort to this fate. Society is to be blamed more than anything or anyone else. 

But their fates differ. MianMian is able to marry a man who supports her in night hunts despite her lack of sect belonging; she finds belonging and happiness outside society (which is a theme). 

Luo QingYang gazed at her husband, smiling, “My husband isn’t of the cultivating world. He used to be a merchant. But, he’s willing to go night-hunting with me…”

It was both rare and admirable that an ordinary person, and a man at that, would be willing to give up his originally stable life and dare travel the world with his wife, unafraid of danger and wander. Wei WuXian couldn’t help feeling respect for him.

We’re not given a clear answer to SiSi’s fate, and I’m not going to assume it’s negative, but it’s worth noting that SiSi is literally saved by and yet locked up by Jin GuangYao, which is symbolic of both Jin GuangYao’s choices and how society treats women like her: they are forever categorized by a life they quite possibly didn’t choose. Their scars repulse people. 

The woman spoke with no shame in her voice, not at all trying to beat around the bush. Many of the female cultivators covered their lips with their sleeves, while the men frowned. Sisi, “After my face became like this, my days were different from before. Nobody wanted to spare me a single glance, let alone do my business. My original brothel kicked me out. I didn’t know how to do anything else, but I couldn’t take in any business at all, so I joined up with the older sisters. Their customers didn’t have high demands. If a job is up, I’d tag along with them. I could manage with my face covered up.”

At this point, some of the people couldn’t take it any longer. They let the contempt in their eyes pour out without any intent to cover it.

But Jin GuangYao, to whatever extent it matters--and Wei WuXian remarks that he thinks it does matter--saved Sisi even though he had to know not killing her would likely come back to bite him. He doesn’t stand up for people against society, but he does surreptitiously find ways to protect those who were kind to him.  

“Speaking of it, that SiSi used to be quite the well-known prostitute back in the days. With how old she is, I couldn’t even recognize her. What a fucking hag. It was quite the torturous death for Jin GuangShan too, hahahahaha…”

“Props to Jin GuangYao for thinking of such a way to kill his dad. A perfect match. Absolutely perfect!”

“It’s quite a mystery—why didn’t Jin GuangYao kill that old prostitute? Witnesses should be silenced. Is he an idiot?”

“Why should he be an idiot? He’s the seed of Jin GuangShan, after all. Maybe he’s a lover of affairs too. Maybe he’s got special tastes and has… haha, an unspeakable relationship with SiSi?”

“Hah, I think so too, but don’t the stories say? Because he engaged in incest with his sister-by-blood, Jin GuangYao was so shocked he somehow fell ill in an unspeakable way, so even if he wanted to, he couldn’t, hahaha…

This is exactly what doomed Jin GuangYao insofar as his choices are concerned: he both hated society that treated his mother terribly, knew it left him with little choice, and yet still chose to be a part of it. He chose to keep himself locked up instead of seeking a more meaningful life outside of society’s approval. 

The symbolism of SiSi being locked up for so long is what happens to Jin GuangYao as well. We see both him and Wei WuXian categorized by their parents: Wei WuXian is disparaged as a “son of a servant” and Jin GuangYao as the “son of a whore.” 

Wei WuXian, however, was given a chance, a chance that enables him to save MianMian from being forever categorized by her scars: he was found on the streets by Jiang FengMian. However horrible Madame Yu was to him (and she was), however he was rumored to be the illegitimate son of Jiang FengMian (which while it’s unlikely, the novel never directly gives an answer to), he had support and love growing up. He had cultivation taught to him, and he thinks this:

if Jiang FengMiang hadn’t take him back to Lotus Pier, perhaps he wouldn’t cross paths with cultivation his whole life. Then he would have never known that such a magnificent path existed in this world. He’d only be a head beggar who roamed the streets, fleeing at first sight of a dog, or maybe looking after cows and stealing other people’s crops in the countryside, playing his flute to pass his time. He wouldn’t have known to cultivate, and he definitely wouldn’t have had the chance to form a core. With such thoughts, he’d felt much better.

Take it as repayment, or take it as redemption. Take it as he’d never received the golden core to begin with.

Jin GuangYao did not have this. He grew up as a poor child in YunMeng just like Wei WuXian, but no one stood up for him save his mother and SiSi. When he found his way to his father’s house, as the actual illegitimate son, Jin GuangShan had him kicked down the stairs of Koi Tower instead of welcoming him. Madame Jin abused him physically as well as emotionally (Madame Yu’s, to our knowledge, was primarily verbal/emotional):

Blood streamed down from [Jin GuangYao’s] forehead, but aside from the wound from the fall, there was also an old wound from before, wrapped in bandages. It had been hidden only because he was wearing the black gauze cap. Now, both wounds gaped open...

Lan XiChen walked as he spoke, “Brother, I am afraid that you do not know. Our third brother really is in a terrible situation as of the moment... His mother never liked him to begin with. After ZiXuan-xiong passed away, she often hit him and scolded him.

Wei WuXian never fully fit in with society, and no one tried to integrate Jin GuangYao with it without removing the labels and boxes they put him in . He only achieved a place in society via lies and deception that just turned out to be another box, leaving him to be trapped in a literal locked coffin for at least a hundred years. He’s fully responsible for his choices that led to his tragedy, but it’s foolish to say that his circumstances did not contribute to them as well; take Wei WuXian’s word for it, not mine. Society is a monstrous, toxic creation in MDZS, and Jin GuangYao’s focus on its approval instead of on the people who loved him’s approval (Lan XiChen, even Nie MingJue) led to him doing monstrous things to vulnerable people who had no choice in their circumstances either (namely, A-Song and SiSi’s shunned prostitute friends). 

It’s still remarkable to me how often I see takes arguing that Jin GuangYao=bad and Wei WuXian=good, when, while everyone’s entitled to their opinion, the story’s themes directly contradict this. Both of them messed up, and Wei WuXian made better choices than Jin GuangYao did ultimately. However, Wei WuXian also was had support from a young age in ways Jin GuangYao never did, and the novel goes out of its way to point this out. It’s hard for servants, prostitutes, the disabled (Xiao XingChen), the disfigured, women, to find a place in a society that scorns them. It’s directly criticizing privilege beyond sociopolitical boundaries and points to the privilege in people’s experiences as well, emphasizing the importance of empathy in solving problems. 

Wei WuXian is warned numerous times that empathy is dangerous, yet he uses it more than once in the novel. Jin GuangYao asked Nie MingJue for empathy several times, and was rebuffed (though Lan XiChen did give him empathy to an extent... but there’s more to that which is a topic for another meta). Ironically, the one who empathizes with Jin GuangYao in the end, who understands him most, is Wei WuXian, because they were not that different in the end. 

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Team China’s second internal Worlds trial

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CHN official list for 2019 WC

WAG: Liu Tingting, Li Shijia, Tang Xijing, Qi Qi, Chen Yile

Alternate: Zhang Jin, Zhou Ruiyu, Yin Sisi

MAG: Xiao Ruoteng, Lin Chaopan, Zou Jingyuan, Sun Wei, Deng Shudi

Alternate: You Hao, Liu Rongbing

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Tentative Roster for China, WAG World Championship 2019

Li Shijia, Chen Yile, Liu Tingting, Qi Qi, Tang Xijing

Sub: Zhang Jin, Zhou Ruiyu, Yin Sisi