Artsy film critics are unlikely to be impressed by China’s micro-dramas. Even so, the roughly two-minute episodes, which cram soap-opera plots into a short-video format, are wildly popular. Watched ...

Revenue in China from micro-dramas is projected to nearly double this year, to 90bn yuan ($12.7bn)—exceeding sales of cinema ...

The Chinese musical Jiang Jie was staged at the Beijing Performing Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday. Inspired by the classic Chinese opera of the same title, the musical centers on a female martyr, ...

Masood Ahmed could be returning to EastEnders, and fans are already buzzing. The​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ local mailman of the ...

Hidden Love is a Chinese romantic series released in 2023 and immediately made Netflix viewers fans of the show. The story is ...

Photo provided to China Daily] Recently, 16 Chinese online novels have been added to the collection of the British Library, ...

Formula 1 held the third annual Las Vegas Grand Prix this past weekend in the Nevada city. The race is an outlier in so many ...

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s “The Monkey King,” based on “Journey to the West,” brings an old superhero to the opera stage. By Joshua Barone Reviewing from San Francisco Underestimate the Monkey ...

Tap Here To Add Soap Opera Digest As A Trusted Source It was in 2005 — a full 20 years before he wound up on the show as Dalton — that Goddard was first seriously considered to play a key character on ...

For Alan Locher, host of the soap-opera-focused YouTube show “The Locher Room,” soap operas are as relevant today as they were when they started nearly 90 years ago. Soap operas have been around since ...

Composer Huang Ruo long dreamed of adapting the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” and its mythical character the Monkey King into an opera, but thought that ambition was a pipe dream. “I grew ...