Scripted series · iQiyi
The First Sight of Nanyang Overseas Chinese
Who's in it
Cast
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The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The First Sight of Nanyang Overseas Chinese actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The First Sight of Nanyang Overseas Chinese reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The story
What it's about
After surviving a wartime bombing in 1941, overseas Chinese volunteer driver Lin Yaozu is mysteriously transported to 2025. As he shares the untold sacrifices of the Nanyang volunteer drivers with Song Yao and others, his journey across time reconnects modern youth with the enduring patriotism and legacy of overseas Chinese during the war.
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