The TV series Recommend Rose Business is directed by Li Tiansheng, co-written by Huabiao Zhang and Chen Jingyi, and starring Li Yaoxiang, Deng Cuiwen, Ng Cheuk Hai, Elliot Ngok, Shang Tiane, Xie Xuexin, Kara Wai and Hu Dingxin. Although the plot is not based on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the second half of the play is related to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it also describes in detail the process of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from its heyday to its demise.

The film warlords is an action film directed by Chen Kexin and starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro, which was released in the mainland of China in June 2007. The outline of the film story is adapted from the case of stabbing a horse, one of the four strange cases in the late Qing Dynasty, and tells the feud between three sworn brothers Pang Qingyun, Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang. In 2008, the film won the best film in the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and the 45th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. Jet Li won the Best Actor Award at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards for this film.