What films and documentaries are set in Huaqiangbei?
When people mention Huaqiangbei, many first think of "China's No. 1 Electronics Street." However, its portrayal in film and television works is actually more than just this one side—sometimes it is a battleground for grassroots entrepreneurship, sometimes a gray area for shanzhai (copycat) phones and the electronics business, and sometimes merely a backdrop for the urban changes of Shenzhen. Public film, television, and documentary works set in or themed around Huaqiangbei can be roughly divided into two categories: "documentaries" and "film and television dramas." Among documentaries, the older one is Huaqiangbei zhi Lian (Love in Huaqiangbei) from CCTV's Jianzheng (Witness) program. Aired in 2009, this episode tells the story of Liu Jiang, a young man from Hunan who came to Huaqiangbei in 1992 to seek his fortune, starting out selling counterfeit money detectors. It is an early audiovisual record that uses an individual's fate to prese...