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, ...

For many western moviegoers, the first Chinese-language movie they saw was probably Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). This martial arts masterpiece by Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee made ...

These apps are betting on low-budget productions, two-minute episodes, scripts adapted from Chinese web novels, and an aggressive marketing strategy. Until last year, Ty Coker, a 28-year-old voice ...

Speed and Love Chinese drama: The upcoming Chinese action-romance drama Speed and Love (双轨) has quickly become one of iQIYI’s most awaited series in 2025. It has already boasted over 7 million views ...

Chinese creatives are refining a new trend in entertainment: the super-short streaming series. Each episode in the series typically lasts less than two minutes, making them easily consumable on mobile ...

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 ...

To keep the production budget low, FlexTV is tapping the vibrant English-speaking creative community in countries like Thailand and the Philippines. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT ...

The show opens with a dramatic scene. A young woman stands alone in a bar, drinking away her bad memories: her fiancé demanding his engagement ring back in the wake of her family’s bankruptcy and her ...