Introduction: A Time Capsule of Republican-Era ShanghaiWhile Western audiences obsess over The Crown’s royal intrigues, China’s 2020 masterpiece The River of Fireworks and Rain offers a grittier historical mirror. This 45-episode saga set in 1930s Shanghai doesn’t just recount history – it resurrects the silenced voices of dockworkers, courtesans, and underground revolutionaries through the lives […]
