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 ...

The Story of Yanxi Palace, Joy of Life, Mysterious Lotus Casebook (Photo Credit: iQIYI and Tencent Video) The Double, featuring Wu Jinyan and Wang Xingyue, is now one of the highest-grossing Chinese ...

CEO Yang Xiaopei says the company is keeping a keen eye on international viewing trends to expand its audience: "Our goal is to move beyond the clichés of traditional storytelling." By Mathew Scott ...

In recent years, short dramas (mini TV series) have rapidly risen in China and become a phenomenal form of cultural ...

From epic period spectacles to the pull of contemporary romance, 2025 is shaping up to be a dazzling year for fans of Chinese dramas. If you thought 2024 was the height of storytelling, make room on ...

Faithful is an eagerly awaited new Chinese television drama that has just premiered, a thriller about political intrigue that brings #MeToo to Chinese period costume dramas set in Imperial times. That ...

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 ...

The summer I was 8, I discovered Chinese dramas for the first time. I was at my grandmother’s house in Cincinnati, where my brother and I often spent part of our break. When my grandmother wasn’t ...

October starts with a bang on Netflix with a Chinese supernatural revenge story, a French historical drama, and an ...

The series pilot for “Breaking the Ice” has all the hallmarks of a dramatic, and cheesy, saga of deception and betrayal — all in 132 seconds, the perfect length for the TikTok and Reels generation ...