What Bilibili Stakes Reveal about Alibaba’s and Tencent’s Content Strategies

 /  Entertainment Marketing  / 
Alibaba and Tencent have tapped into such video platforms looking to create synergies for their core business. Read More

Tencent Music Reportedly Pins Its US IPO Date on October 18

 /  Technology  / 
Tencent Music is expected to submit an IPO filing to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on September 7th and the final IPO date is slated for October 18th. Read More

Tencent Book Unit Begins New Chapter With Massive IPO

 /  Money  / 
Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s online literature unit, which seeks up to HK$8.3 billion ($1.06 billion) in an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, has had an enthusiastic reception from retail investors. Read More

Chinese Fragrance Label Documents Opens Scented Bookstore In Shanghai

 /  News  / 
Documents invites readers to embark on a journey of discovery, immersing themselves in the enchanting world of trees and the written word.  Read More

After Yet Another Liu Cixin Adaptation, What’s Next for Chinese Sci-Fi?

 /  News  / 
Liu’s signature brand of “hard sci-fi” continues to dominate, but a new generation of authors is putting a more traditional spin on the genre. Read More

New Chinese Animation Puts Modern Spin on Traditional Stories

 /  News  / 
“Yao-Chinese Folktales” is an eight-part series inspired by various traditional Chinese literature titles. Read More

Sanitizing a Chinese Shakespeare

 /  News  / 
The webseries “A Dream of Splendor” is a hit, but its female characters come off as trite cutouts relative to the show’s 700-year-old source material. Read More

How Video Games Fueled the Rise of Chinese Fantasy

 /  News  / 
Thirty years ago, the martial arts epic was the country’s most popular genre. Read More

Jia Zhangke and the Stories Men Tell Themselves

 /  News  / 
The director’s latest documentary suffers from a fixation on the self-mythologizing of ordinary men. Read More

Where Next for the Filmmakers of the Tibetan New Wave?

 /  News  / 
Directors Lhapal Gya and Pema Tseden discuss the challenges of telling Tibetan stories. Read More

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