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Top-Ranked Chinese Netflix Series Divides Viewers at Home
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (493+ words) Chinese romantic drama “The Early Spring,” an adaptation of a 2021 web novel, has become the highest-ranked Chinese series on streaming giant Netflix’s weekly non-English TV chart. However, the show has divided domestic viewers over whether it romanticizes an unhealthy power…...
Eye of the Storm: Viral Podcaster Breaks Silence Over Plagiarism Scandal
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1537+ words) “Every time fishermen head out to sea, they have to face the uncertainty of the ocean. When a storm hits — you can only head back to port.” Zhuge Yiyang, an essayist and podcaster better known online as Zhong Shu, stares…...
Chinese Cinema Turns Its Lens Outward
1+ week, 5+ day ago (374+ words) At first glance, the film has all the familiar ingredients of a Chinese feel-good blockbuster. Starring the beloved comic actor Shen Teng as Xu Fu, a chef tasked with winning over foreign palates, the posters show him surrounded by smiling…...
Behind China’s Unlikely Box-Office Hit, Indie Filmmakers Struggle to Be Seen
1+ week, 6+ day ago (260+ words) On review sites and social media, many viewers have wondered how such a production managed to secure screens alongside blockbusters like Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” and Wen Muye’s “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East.” But the question can…...
Underground No More: China’s ‘History Fangirls’ Stand Up
2+ week, 5+ day ago (399+ words) “Serve the dead as one serves the living.” This principle has shaped Chinese funeral and ancestral rites for over two millennia. Traditionally, it meant visiting tombs with food and wine and burning joss paper or paper effigies to honor the…...
Inside the Chinese AI Studio Shrinking Short-Drama Crews to One
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1705+ words) Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on how AI is reshaping China’s ultrashort-drama industry. Read part 1. JIANGSU, East China — Chen Hao’s old desktop still has more than 10 versions of Nuke, a standard editing tool in the…...
What Happens When Chinese Dreamcore Meets the Real World?
3+ week, 4+ day ago (534+ words) What if the zombie apocalypse was already here? In the late 2010s, Chinese indie band Hardcore Raver in Tears imagined just such a world in “Take Her to Wanda Plaza,” a jagged, synth-heavy sendup of the country’s mindless consumer culture. Over…...
Cash Cow: China’s Most Mocked Cartoon Is Suddenly a Viral Hit
3+ week, 6+ day ago (467+ words) Poorly animated yellow cows walking on two legs, raw voice acting, and extremely slow pace — these are characteristics of China’s most recent box office hit and viral phenomenon. The effect has led to highly polarized ratings on domestic review platform…...