Product: TV Play Series FORTRESS BESIEGED
Starring: Chen Daoming, Lv Liping, Li Yuanyuan, Ge You, Ying Da
Director: Huang Shuqin
Produced by Shanghai Film Studio
Published by Xiamen Audio-Visual Publishing House, 2002
Media: 4 DVD
Language: Chinese
Subtitle: Chinese-English
ISBN: 7884063328 / 9787884063321
ISRC: CNE200240100

Adapted from Qian Zhongshu's famous novel, Fortress Besieged (Wei Cheng) is arguably the best Chinese TV series portraying Chinese intellectuals, but the popular television series directed by Huang Shuqin, starring Chen Daoming, Lu Liping, Li Yuanyuan, Ge You, Ying Da. It is a comedy, a tragedy, a love story, a satire, and above all, a masterpiece.

Plot Summary

Set in the 1930s it follows the misadventures of Fang Hung-chien (Fang Hongjian), a bumbling everyman who wastes his time studying abroad, and secures a fake degree when learning he has run out of money and must return home to China. Fang was the son of a country gentleman. A marriage had been arranged for him while at university, but the intended wife died before he could see her.

The year was 1937, and Fang was returning to China from Europe. On the boat home, where Fang courts two young ladies. One fellow traveler was Miss Su, in her late 20s. She is quite pretty in a thin and pallid style, but her choosy attitude towards men means she is still unattached and getting slightly desperate. Another young lady on board was Miss Bao, who tended towards the tanned and voluptuous. Fang pursued Miss Bao with some success during the voyage. However, when the boat reached Hong Kong, Miss Bao disembarked into the embrace of her fiancee, a middle-aged, balding doctor, and Fang realized he had been used.

Fang then became more intimate with Miss Su. However, after they disembarked at Shanghai, Fang became occupied with finding a job, and attending matchmaking sessions arranged by his parents and former in-laws. After one failed attempt, Fang decided to contact Miss Su. While visiting her he also met her cousin, Miss Tang, and Miss Su's suitor, Zhao Xinmei. He found a teaching job at a new university in the upcountry where he met his would-be wife, Sun Roujia. He was married with Sun in Shanghai after leaving the school because of discrimination. But the couple lived unhappy. It is his disastrous marriage. At the end his wife left him, while he listened to a clock chiming.

Marriage is like a fortress besieged: those who are outside want to get in, and those who are inside want to get out.

商品名称：电视连续剧《围城》
领衔主演：陈道明、吕丽萍、李媛媛、葛优、英达
导演：黄蜀芹
摄制：上海电影制片厂
出版社：厦门音像出版社，2002
介质：DVD
碟数：4
字幕：中英文
ISBN：7884063328
ISRC：CN-E20-02-401-00/V.J9

剧情介绍

1937年夏，抗战初期方鸿渐到欧洲游学四年回到上海，住在已亡未婚妻的家中，与女博士苏文纨、大学生唐晓芙小姐发生了情爱纠葛，因此受到丈人家的冷淡。他恋爱失败后，和苏的失意追求者赵辛楣成为好朋友，二人接受内地三闾大学的聘请。一路上历经艰险，也遭遇无数趣事。在三闾大学任教期间，方不知不觉地卷入校内个人恩怨和乡里狭隘观念的明争暗斗中，几位同事都反对他，而他和英语助教孙柔嘉日趋亲密更引起他们的嫉妒。赵辛楣离校从商后，方鸿渐被校方排斥。方与孙结婚回沪，但他俩因琐事争吵，终于导致无可避免的分手。所以说，围在城里的人想逃出来，城外的人想冲进去，对婚姻也罢，职业也罢，人生的愿望大都如此。