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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The click of a computer, or the press of a TV remote, is all it takes for a global audience to watch Chinese dramas – and for China to tap into a gushing revenue stream. During the 14th Five-Year Plan ...

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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 ...

My partner recently confessed something to me about his screen-time habits: When he’s giggling at his phone, he’s often watching short English-language soap operas that have begun showing up on his ...

While recent years have shown an increase in BL (boy’s love) Chinese dramas centering around the homoromantic/homoerotic relationships between men, one may be ...

Americans are deeply familiar with the classic time-travel trope. Someone travels backward or forwards in time, often with the aid of technology, messes with the history as it was (or is to be) ...

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.