Warm and Cold Life: 21st Century Chinese Folk Archives

Author: Phoenix TV's "Warm and Cold Lives" program
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: "Warm and Cold Lives" is a documentary-style interview program. Our original intention was to find some people and record a piece of history. This is a three-dimensional, vivid era, where cities and rural areas, indifference and warmth, and the destinies of many people collide and change in unexpected ways. Those personal rises and falls, those dreams that are held onto, are profound and real. What we aim to record are such stories of survival and life. Through nearly three years of exploration, "Warm and Cold Lives" has moved from the studio to a broader space for discourse, from marginalized groups to more general peripheral populations, gradually expanding its scope and depth of storytelling. It was precisely in this gradual transformation that Chen Xiaonan shifted from a highly rational news anchor to a widely recognized "social observer" who combines both rationality and empathy, and "Warm and Cold Lives" became one of the golden programs of "Phoenix Impact."
As a global Chinese-language television media, Phoenix TV's corporate culture has always been oriented toward "bridging the distance between Chinese people around the world." This distance is not just spatial but also emotional, a gap between Chinese people in different living conditions. Therefore, we focus on the changing dynamics of global affairs as well as the living conditions of marginalized Chinese communities worldwide. "Warm and Cold Lives" is a regular program that reflects Phoenix TV's social responsibility, media conscience, and humanistic concern.