Lu Yao's Ordinary World now on air as TV series

Ordinary World by the late Chinese author Lu Yao has been adapted into a TV series. The novel was first published nearly three decades ago, and a previous attempt to bring the story to the small screen in 1989 failed.

The 56-episode series has been aired on four channels since last month. It reportedly cost its makers 120 million yuan ($19.2 million) and took seven years to complete.

In 1991, Lu's most famous work earned him the Mao Dun Literature Prize, one of China's most prestigious literary awards. In the next 20 years, almost 5 million copies of the novel were sold.