Defying the Storm (2022)

Directed by

Jin Chen

Cast

Hu Yi Tian, Zhang Ruo Nan, Wang Jin Song, Zhang Xi Lin, Zhang He, Lin Zi Lu, Gao Wei Guang, Hu Ya Jie

Length

40 episodes

How it feels

During the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, a medical lecturer named Meng Haitang flees south with students. She and a colleague named Zhang Qi work together to keep education alive. They fall in love, face professional setbacks, and eventually move west to continue their medical work despite the war.

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