觉醒年代 Age of Awakening is rated 9.3 on Douban, on par with Minning Town, and is almost unheard of in the West. At the same time, the production quality (at least from what I see) is the best the country can offer. But I think the reason they won't bother with English subtitles, is (1) that it's produced by CCTV therefore non-commercial and (2) the nature of the series itself.
That being said, I don't see why not I try and give translating this show a shot, so I translated the trailer and here it is.
I've uploaded the subtitles to a remote Git repository so feel free to contribute whenever you can:
https://forge.chapril.org/agentofchange/age-of-awakening.git
Awesome job! This series looks amazing! It’s high fucking time the Chinese started (?) cranking out high quality leftwing movies and TV shows since it’s almost impossible to make that shit anywhere else.
Check out The Last Emperor if you haven't already. The story is framed by the last emperor of China's time in prison after he's captured by Soviets and turned over to the CPC at the end of WWII. It's a biography of him, but it touches on a lot of Chinese history from about 1910 through the Cultural Revolution. Directed by an Italian Marxist, has a ton of beautiful on-location shots of the Forbidden City.
It's one of my favorite movies. I've seen it three or four times.