Global Times: How a novel about ‘qiaopi’ and a filmmaker’s visit led to ‘Dear You’

Global Times: Writer Chen Jiming on qiaopi culture, Home Letter, and the shared emotional roots behind hit film Dear You's 650M yuan run. Beijing, CHINA, May 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of 2023, long before movie Dear You became one of the most talked-about Chinese films in recent years, director Lan Hongchun arrived on Guishan island in South China's Guangdong Province with his team to meet writer Chen Jiming, whose novel Home Letter traces Chaoshan culture and qiaopi, the handwritt