TV by the book
China DailyZhao Lixin plays the first-person narrator in The Moon and Sixpence, and actor Victor Huang plays Charles Strickland, the banker who abandons everything to pursue his dream of being an artist. Dressed in a tuxedo, actor Zhao Lixin, with his signature black curly hair, steps onto a stage on the set of the popular TV show, The Wonderful Read, in Shunyi district, Beijing. Zhao plays the first-person narrator in the show's first episode, which recounts the tale of English writer W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel, The Moon and Sixpence. Aside from The Moon and Sixpence, other books to get the TV show's unique treatment include 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by historian Ray Huang; Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Israeli Yuval Noah Harari; 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff and the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin.