I'm a Boss

I'm a Boss is a 2009 Chinese television comedy-drama directed by Zheng Xiaolong, starring Jiang Wu as an idiosyncratic and Quixotic mid-aged Ma Yiming who, forced to leave his government career, enters the business world as an entrepreneur. Ma Yiming is a likeable character who is selfless, dependable, diligent, upstanding, and full of righteousness, but who is also utterly unsuccessful; his frequently amusing misfortunes highlight the contrast between the ideal that the Communist-Party propagates and the capitalistic reality in contemporary Chinese society.

Broadcast
The show was first broadcast in May 2009 on Beijing Television. In Taiwan, it was shown on Videoland Max-TV in March 2010.

Cast and characters

 * Jiang Wu as Ma Yiming, the protagonist
 * Zhang Heng as Shi Hong, a nurse and Ma Yiming's wife
 * Wang Lei as Shi Jun, Shi Hong's jobless brother, though he claims he owns a million-dollar company
 * Wang Jingsong as Ma Yiping, a taxicab driver and Ma Yiming's brother
 * Wang Yajie as Li Qinqin, a landlady
 * Niu Piao as Feng Zhiyuan, a businessman
 * Xu Zheng as Xu Tianlai, a businessman
 * Li Jingjing as Bai Lihua, a businesswoman
 * Fu Miao as Chen Xi, a gold-digging secretary
 * Li Xiaomeng as Ranran, a young bartender
 * Liu Yiwei as a businessman
 * Fang Zige as Ma Yiming's superior

Awards and nominations
Xu Zheng was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Huading Awards.