New wave of nostalgia

Producer Angie Chai is adapting her hit 2001 Taiwan drama series Meteor Garden to appeal to modern mainland audiences. Wang Kaihao reports.

For a period of time during the early 2000s, it was almost impossible for me to spend a single day at high school without hearing about Meteor Garden, a 20-episode Taiwan drama series featuring a cast of young idols.

Its theme song, Meteor Rain, could be heard on almost every street corner, and the drama was an everyday topic of discussion for my classmates. I can still readily recall the names of every major character in the series now, even though I didn't even follow the program.