Ancient Chinese classics have never been shown in this way. In a Beijing theater with three stages, crew members spent almost two years rendering 11 classic books, including Analects of Confucius and Dao De Jing, into a TV drama series. Titled, China in the Classics, the multi-series program produced by China Media Group (CMG) is a mishmash of cultural seminars, dramas about classics, and digital screens to visualize the classics.
Two stages, one featuring experts explaining the classics and another performers acting out scenes related to the classics, are connected with a lane-shaped third stage, a