The Tribulation of the Mountain God: English Subtitles Available

[douqi]

I've subtitled The Tribulation of the Mountain God, an 11-minute extra for Led Astray by Love, which can be viewed here (via Captionfy). This originally aired as pay-to-view content on the Kuaishou platform. The video is hosted on the YouTube channel KwaiDrama, which seems to have been scooping up YouTube licences for a whole load of mini-dramas that initially aired on the Kuaishou platform. All the sound on their videos is wonky (including this one), because they've muted out most of the copyright-protected music, presumably so that they can monetise it.

Some content notes: the characters An Qi and Ren Qiuping are coded as belonging to a non-Han minority ethnic group, and An Qi is played by a Han actress (the actor playing Ren Qiuping is probably also Han, but I haven't looked into him). There is a lack of specificity about precisely which minority ethnic group they supposedly belong to, which is problematic in the way Western productions coding a character as 'vaguely Asian' would be. It's also possible to read the film as being somewhat disparaging of minority ethnic 'superstitions', though I don't think that is a particularly strong element.

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

Thank you for subtitling this!

[douqi]

<3

Next up: yet another Sheng Wei/Ai Ye one!

[halfcactus]

Thank you for the content notes! ♥ It always helps to know what to expect.

The Youtube copyright thing is so annoying (sometimes, though not always, in music variety shows the full episodes will CUT OUT THE PERFORMANCE PARTS and upload those separately and I hate it), but I guess silence is better than sudden Christmas music??? Haha

[douqi]

Ugh that is really SO frustrating, and must ruin the flow of the show!

Re: content notes, thanks! I'm trying to get better at articulating what I think is iffy about c-media's treatment of ethnic minority characters and culture, so I'm glad it's helpful for people watching too!