风行

[Pedroski]

很多品牌就是通过电视广告风行中国的。

 

通过电视广告风行中国的。

through TV advertising popular China

 

Seems to me like there is something like '在。。。。里‘ missing here, but I'm sure the Chinese is good. So 风行 = 'become popular in' ???

[aone]

Bingo, 风行 = 'become popular'  or  "become well-known/famous" 

[Pedroski]

It's just that there seems, from an English perspective, to be an 'in' missing. There is no 'in China'.

[aone]

很多品牌就是通过电视广告风行中国的。

Many brands has become famous in china just through television advertising .

 

风行 The status

中国 The Range

風行中國 = famous in china

 

中國馳名商標 = China Famous Trademark = well known trademarks all over the country e.g. NIKE。

[Pedroski]

Can you rewrite this sentence in Chinese using something like '在。。。中‘

 

Just a guess: 很多品牌就是通过电视广告 在中国中 成为 风行的。

[imron]

Can you rewrite this sentence in Chinese using something like '在。。。中‘

Why would you want to.  What you have written sounds incredibly awkward, not to mention grammatically incorrect.

[Pedroski]

I would like to see how this may be expressed differently using something like '在。。。。里‘ for the reason stated above:  ‘风行中国’ = 'popular China' or 'catch on China' or 'become famous China'. I am assured this is good Chinese, but to my ear it screams out for a locative element such as a preposition. So I would like to see it written with such an element.

 

Can you do that?

[aone]

You can write like this

很多品牌就是通过电视广告 在中国中 成为 风行的。

or 

很多品牌就是通过电视广告 在中国（地域）范围内 变为 风行的。

 

The fact is stated, but using words more than necessary.

[Pedroski]

Thanks! Just wanted to compare. You would never say it like that though, is that correct?

[aone]

Definitely not 

[Kenny同志]

There is an ellipsis in your sentence. 

 

We tend to omit the word 於 (in, at, or on) in many expressions, for which I can't provide any rule, but here are some examples:

 

大白（於）天下

享譽（於）全球

對飲（於）月下

身陷（於）困境

 

In your case, it is 風行（於）中國.

[Pedroski]

Thanks for that! The rule is easy: 迷惑老外们！ 哈哈！

 

zdic.net：於：在。如：“生於某年”、“舟行於海”、“生於斯，長於斯。”

[ZhangJiang]

Kenny is right to me. And it seems the rule is that the verb before 於 should be intransitive and the latter part a location/time period.

Besides, you can't say "成为 风行的" or "变为 风行的" because 风行 is a verb not an adjective.