{"id":68956,"date":"2025-01-16T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/16\/see-you-again-tv-series-china-divorce-stigma"},"modified":"2025-01-16T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:15:49","slug":"see-you-again-the-hit-reality-tv-series-in-china-helping-to-destigmatise-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68956","title":{"rendered":"See You Again, the hit reality TV series in China helping to destigmatise divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The show, which sends couples contemplating divorce away on a weeks-long roadtrip, has struck a chord and ignited debate on relationship norms<\/p>\n<p>The premise of See You Again, a Chinese online reality television series that sends three married couples contemplating divorce away on an 18-day roadtrip, is designed to contrive an emotional spectacle. It is still raw viewing when it delivers.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s key dynamics are universal: power games, family dramas, division of assets; the empty loss as love devolves into hate. In one scene, the husband breaks down sobbing while behind the steering wheel, during a heated discussion with his wife about custody of their son and daughter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/16\/see-you-again-tv-series-china-divorce-stigma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show, which sends couples contemplating divorce away on a weeks-long roadtrip, has struck a chord and ignited debate on relationship normsThe premise of See You Again, a Chinese online reality television series that sends three married couples cont&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4580,"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":[50,71,484,2041,520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-culture","category-divorce","category-reality-tv","category-television"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956","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\/4580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68957,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68956\/revisions\/68957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}