Some of the most famous Chinese dramas have been adapted from novels. These shows are popular not only in China but all over the world. The premises of such adaptations are usually set in the present ...

God of Wealth, when will you finally side with me?” One rainy night, after finishing overtime, the female protagonist Xuanle, ...

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, ...

Mainland Chinese film and TV studio Linmon Media says it is expanding its commitment to the costume drama series genre. At this week’s TIFFCOM film and TV rights market, which takes place alongside ...

Rags-to-riches tales, revenge plots, and plenty of twists—Chinese viewers are loving what they can find in internet “micro-dramas,” the latest big thing in Chinese entertainment of vertically-shot ...

China's $5 billion micro drama industry is booming Bytedance and competitor Kuaishou among successful first movers Companies with Chinese ties creating short videos for U.S. customers Micro dramas ...

There's another short video trend from China drawing views in the U.S. - microdramas. These are shows cut up into short episodes, just 60 or 90 seconds long or shorter than the theme music BJ ...

An upcoming TV series, Zero Day, features a hypothetical Chinese offensive against Taiwan. The trailer for Zero Day was unveiled in Taipei on Tuesday during the capital's annual air drill. The ...

The prizes for the main Cannes film festival sidebar were handed out Friday night. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Chinese director Hu Guan’s drama Black Dog snagged the top prize in Cannes’ ...

China’s micro drama industry has witnessed an extraordinary boom over the past couple of years, attracting hundreds of millions of viewers with its manic soap operas divided into bitesize episodes.