Warm and Cold Life – Folk Archives of China in the 21st Century

Author: Phoenix TV's "Warm and Cold Life" program
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: "Warm and Cold Life" 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 meet the countryside, and coldness collides with warmth. The destinies of many people undergo unexpected collisions and changes. Those personal rises and falls, those dreams that persist, are profound and real. What we aim to record are such stories of survival and life. "Warm and Cold Life" has gradually expanded its scope and depth over the past three years of exploration, moving from the studio to a broader space of discourse, and from marginalized groups to more general peripheral groups. In this process of gradual transformation, Chen Xiaonan has shifted from a highly rational news anchor to a widely recognized "social observer" who combines both rationality and empathy. "Warm and Cold Life" has also become 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 global Chinese people." This distance is not just spatial but also emotional, a gap between Chinese people in different living states. Therefore, we focus on the changing dynamics of global affairs, as well as the living conditions of marginalized Chinese communities worldwide. "Warm and Cold Life" is a regular program that reflects Phoenix TV's social responsibility, media conscience, and humanitarian values.