Chinese TV series have created a solid niche for themselves among international drama fans. Mainland China's most famous television series include historical dramas and fantasy series, many of which ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's television regulator has banned "entertainment-driven" historical dramas, it said in a notice on Thursday, the latest clampdown on media in a sensitive year for the ruling ...

In recent years, China has sought to export more of the country's TV and film productions to other markets, and the appetite for it is real. This year's Ne Zha 2, for example, surpassed $2 billion at ...

Audiences in Southeast Asia love Chinese micro series. In the US, interest in the format is picking up You have fast food and fast fashion, so why not fast soap operas? In our attention-deficit era of ...

Song Xiao Yu awoke inside a story that was not hers. Each time she chose another man or sought another fate, the world corrected her with relentless deaths. Around her, people moved within narrow ...

Chinese costume dramas are gaining immense popularity on Southeast Asia's streaming platforms, driven by polished production ...

The Blue Book of China TV Series 2025, launched at the Tokyo International Film Festival’s TIFFCOM market by Peking University’s Chen Xuguang and Zhejiang University’s Fan Zhizhong, outlines an ...

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 ...

China’s tightly controlled narrative on the War of Resistance has been derailed by the emergence of viral ultra-short war dramas. While stoking patriotic sentiment, their excessive dramatisation ...