{"id":64378,"date":"2024-05-24T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/24\/funny-and-kind-of-sad-how-clarksons-farm-has-captured-chinese-viewers"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:05:20","slug":"funny-and-kind-of-sad-how-clarksons-farm-has-captured-chinese-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64378","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Funny and kind of sad\u2019: how Clarkson\u2019s Farm has captured Chinese viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s reality TV show has particular appeal for young people with no experience of farming<\/p>\n<p>To one Chinese reviewer, Jeremy Clarkson is \u201ca stupid old British man with too much money who farmed for a year without harvesting anything\u201d. To another, he is \u201cthe British version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/jan\/28\/li-ziqi-china-influencer-rural-life\">Li Ziqi<\/a>\u201d, a 33-year-old woman who is one of China\u2019s biggest internet celebrities thanks to videos of herself farming and cooking in the idyllic Sichuanese countryside.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson\u2019s Farm, the former Top Gear presenter\u2019s beguilingly popular reality television show about his pivot from petrolhead to farmer, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2024\/may\/03\/clarksons-farm-season-three-review\">hugely successful on his home turf<\/a>, becoming the most watched show on Amazon Prime in the UK. It is also a hit in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/24\/funny-and-kind-of-sad-how-clarksons-farm-has-captured-chinese-viewers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s reality TV show has particular appeal for young people with no experience of farmingTo one Chinese reviewer, Jeremy Clarkson is \u201ca stupid old British man with too much money who farmed for a year without harvesting anything\u201d. To anoth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,238,2041,520,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-media","category-reality-tv","category-television","category-television-radio","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64379,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64378\/revisions\/64379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}