New Century Chinese Special Love Drama Study

Since the beginning of new century, espionage TV serials have become popular and got a high audience rating. The quality and quantity of both original works and adaptations have arrived at a new height. "Silent Oath", "Files of Plum Blossum", "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes", "Plot" etc. Have all won approval for their rich artistic content as well as good audience rate.Compared with the anti-spy movie, which was very popular in the 1950s, espionage TV serials have different artistic and narrative characteristics because of the differences in era and genre. This paper aims to analyze the concept and historical development of the espionage TV serials, which grows prosperous in the new century. Basing on a summary of the anti-spy movies, this paper mainly dwells on the character personality, artistic content and narrative skills. In the present time, espionage TV serials adopt the latest pattern recognitions to build their mainststream ideology, and inherit the traditional narrative skill during its creation. Suspenses are used very often in order to make the story more attractive, but this is not a unique technique. The author of this paper considers the skill of shifting and broadening the narrative perspective as equally important.There are two types of characters impress audience most in the espionage TV serials, that is, new heroes and female spies. New heroes are no more conceptual and stereotyped but with multiple value orientation, and carry a lot of humane emotion and complicated personality. But this does no harm in building their heroic image in the story. The charming and lovely female spies are in accordance to the "female coding" and "female expectation" from male audience, fulfilling their "wish to peep". The diversified themes and modern audio-visual techniques also make espionage TV serials, pleasant and entertaining.