Pets bring their owners Yu Menglong, Mu Ziyang, Yao Chen, Zhang Qiyan, and Zhaoran for this cute photoshoot.
Weibo event photoshoot
Princess Liu Yifei 
Tong Liya’s shoulders bring all the butterflies to the year
A set of photoshoots for Weibo’s red carpet event. It seems like all the major fashion awards this year are doing photoshoots and I love them.
(more…)28th Golden Rooster Awards red carpet round-up
Some of the photos the actors’ studios have released are comparable to magazine shoots.
Television’s best actresses grace the cover of T Magazine
Award-winning television actresses Chen Jin, Mei Ting, Hai Qing, Tong Liya and Yao Chen have gathered for a T Magazine photoshoot by Mei Yuangui.
(more…)Liu Tao, Yao Chen on the cover of ELLE
Liu Tao and Yao Chen are featured on the July cover of ELLE. Both actresses saw a career resurgence with Daylight Entertainment dramas Ode to Joy and Nirvana in Fire and All is Well respectively. Photos by Li Qi.
All Is Well trailer hits all the hot topics
From preferential treatment to sons to overly-protected sons to independent women to old people being scammed, All is Well 都挺好’s trailer hits so many the hot topics that every episode is already guaranteed to set aflame a million internet forum. The series starring Yao Chen, Ni Dahong, and Guo Jingfei is set to air on March 1st.
Lantern Festival drama posters
Here’s a round-up of Lantern Festival poster/stills released for upcoming (and one currently airing) dramas. Happy Lantern Festival!
Ma Yili, Yao Chen: We’re still young actresses
Here’s two photoshoots of 42-year-old Ma Yili and 38-year-old Yao Chen from earlier this fall as they promoted their new film. At the press conference, the two were asked about difficulties in finding good roles as an older women. Yao Chen said the two are still considered young actresses while Ma Yili said that “Actresses don’t need to panic … The best period of your life is just around the corner.” It certainly is for the two of them, who has continued to have one popular work after another.
Although the two actresses play mothers in this film, I actually do see an increasing number of lead roles for women above 30 in non-mother roles, probably in line with increasing age of marriage in China. There’s also been a lot more of older woman- younger man relationships in idol dramas. For example, 38-year-old Dong Jie recently starred in an idol dramas opposite 26-year-old Han Dongjun and 31-year-old Zhai Tianlin, 33-year-old Tong Yao (her character is younger) liked 18-year-old Chen Feiyu’s character in Ever Night, the then-42-year-old Yan Ni paired with the then 31-year-old Hu Ge. As the latest and perhaps first crop of idol drama leads from mainland ( Tang Yan comes to mind) grows up, I can easily see many of them starring in rom-coms well into their 40’s and maybe even older.
Yao Chen in the gardens
Actress Yao Chen is photographed in a Shanghai tea house for this Harper’s Bazaar shoot. This might be one of my favorite photos lately set in a Southern garden. I love how the dress flows so well with the statues, and how both evoke a sense of the fluidity of nature.
Yao Chen, Ni Dahong lead ensemble cast for modern family drama All Is Well
All is Well 都挺好 is produced by Daylight Entertainment, and based on Ah Nai’s (River of Time, Ode to Joy) novel of the same name. Yao Chen will be making her small screen come back after 2014’s Divorce Lawyers, and this time she’ll be playing the estranged daughter of veteran actor Ni Dahong (Mr. Right).