Nieokiełznane opowieści-kłącza. Mo Dao Zu Shi i Chen Qing Ling jako przykład transmedialności na gruncie chińskim

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Despite the academic efforts in making it more known and familiar, Chinese cinema is still sometimes considered to a certain degree as „an outlandish”. Is it the case? I decided to examine it on the example of work, which was divided with time into separate pieces, and then underwent the process of transmedia storytelling – a form of media narration forgotten after Matrix by Wachowski’s siblings. As a primary role in my reflection serves The Untamed – 50-episodes Chinese historical drama (guzhuang) shared via Tencent platform in 2019. At this point the series is rather known, but at the same time it stays away from mainstream – located slightly at the edge of global awareness, somewhere between popular and niche culture. Thanks to transformation into transmedia story, and also being entangled in the Internet second circuit, the original plot, depicted by the series, received recognition and opened itself for the farther interpretations and metamorphosis.