A new wave of short drama actors has risen from anonymity to mainstream fame, challenging the hierarchy of China’s ...

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

With children central to many ultrashort dramas, young actors are enduring grueling schedules to shoot scripts far beyond ...

What would a modern-day fitness coach do if he suddenly found himself in ancient China, living as an overweight young man?

But my guilty pleasures are Chinese historical dramas — called C-dramas by those who enjoy them — and I just stumbled across an absolutely wild C-drama game: New One Studio's Road to Empress, which ...

Their money goes much further in China’s interior. Chinese micro-dramas are also starting to take off in the West. Some are even produced in America, with scripts translated into English and then shot ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Delhi: 442. Lahore: 334. Beijing: 16. These are the levels of PM 2.5, one of the principle measures for air pollution, on November 19. As Pakistanis and Indians struggle with hazardous air quality, in ...

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Once upon a time (read: a few years ...

A week ago, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that a Chinese push to seize Taiwan would represent such a grave threat to Japan that it could be dragged into a war. Beijing’s response: ...

Four years ago, the microdrama industry as we know it didn’t exist. Today, it’s a global juggernaut racing toward $26 billion in annual revenues by 2030, fundamentally reshaping how audiences consume ...