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Love Story in Shanghai

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ10889348 ↗
Source-derived summary

Love Story in Shanghai, also known as Symphony of Rain, is a 2001 Chinese period television drama series directed by Zhao Baogang, set in 1930s Shanghai.

The show was broadcast on 14 national networks almost simultaneously beginning in late May 2001, and more than 20 local networks during the year. It dominated ratings on Shanghai Television and was the top-rated show on Guangdong Television for the year. In Taiwan, it was broadcast on Taiwan Television in February/March 2001 and received respectable ratings. In Japan, the show was streamed on the website showtime.jp beginning in May 2007.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Love Story in Shanghai” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Love, Story and Shanghai.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Love, Story and Shanghai providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10889348. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Love Story in Shanghai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.