ByteDance, owner of popular short-video app TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, has launched a short-drama app in Southeast Asia in an attempt to replicate the genre's success at home. Melolo, ...

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Hidden Love, Till the End of the Moon and The Untamed (Photo Credit: Youku and Tencent Video) Manhua or web comics have inspired many popular Chinese dramas. Written by well-known artists, they have ...

Explore steamy Asian dramas from China, Korea, Japan & Hong Kong that shattered streaming records and got hearts racing.

The Chinese censors are at work again. A popular 15-episode web drama called Addiction was taken off air earlier this week after 12 episodes were shown. The drama series, which centres around the ...

Micro dramas, known for wild plots and vertical, bite-sized videos, made headlines in China in 2024 as the industry surpassed the country's box-office revenue for the first time. The micro drama ...

Meet the platforms, producers, and power players driving the microdrama boom - from China's ByteDance to U.S. disruptors and ...

BEIJING—With blockbuster films featuring survival-game plotlines and microdramas clocking in at several minutes an episode, China’s latest cultural productions depicting wartime resistance against ...

If there were ever an audience that could relate to being stuck in an endless time loop, it’s Chinese in the year 2022. So perhaps it’s no surprise that streaming giant iQiyi’s tale of two young ...

Chinese streaming giant iQiYi posted an 8% revenue decline and deepened losses in the third quarter of 2025, though ...

The 2025 China International Online Literature Week kicks off in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] As Chinese stories travel across borders through online ...

IN THEORY “The Bad Kids”, this summer’s most talked-about Chinese television drama, is a thriller about a teacher turned mass killer, matching wits with three plucky children in a quiet coastal town.