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Viewers Give ‘Three-Body’ Animated Series Two Thumbs Up

Mar 16, 2020 / News /

China’s sci-fi industry has attracted significant interest and growth in recent years, generating 45.6 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) in 2018, a threefold increase from 2017, according to a report released in November at an annual science fiction conference. Read More

Netease Launches Chinese Version of Marvel Unlimited Comic App

Jan 14, 2020 / News /

Marvel content on the Netease app is currently free to access but the company will charge an RMB 18 monthly membership in the future. Read More

Bilibili Notches Q3 Revenue Beat, But Losses Widen as Expansion Takes Hold

Nov 19, 2019 / News /

The platform is broadening beyond its ACG roots to online learning and music. Read More

League of Its Own: The Video Game That Shaped a Generation

Nov 1, 2019 / Chinasplaining /

A decade on from its release, the online video game ‘League of Legends’ has become a cultural touchstone for many Chinese millennials. Read More

Ask China Anything: A peek inside China’s ACG culture

Aug 12, 2019 / Chinasplaining /

For a lot of ACG fans, however, ChinaJoy represents one of the few reasons to leave the house this summer. Read More

How Chinese Youth Are Finding Depth in the Two-Dimensional World

Mar 25, 2019 / Chinasplaining /

Young Chinese may be dazzled by the color and lines of Japanese-influenced manga, anime, and games, but it’s the three-dimensional relationships that draw them in. Read More

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

Mar 14, 2019 / Entertainment Marketing /

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

Alibaba Acquires 8% Stake in Bilibili to Double own on Content-driven E-commerce

Feb 15, 2019 / News /

China’s recent rise of content-driven e-commerce is another testimony to the saying that content is king. Read More

Headlines from China: Sunac to Fully Take Over Wanda’s Cultural and Tourism Projects

Oct 16, 2018 / Headlines From China /

Wanda Group CEO Wang Jianlin is getting ready to let Sunac China Holdings Ltd. completely take over his cultural tourism business, according to a reporter from Caijing Magazine. Read More

Bilibili Debuts on Steam with Two New Games

Sep 10, 2018 / Game /

Bilibili, the Chinese video sharing and ACG (animation, comic and game) community, has made its debut on the world’s top video game distribution platform, Steam, as the publisher for two new titles of The Con Simulator and Invaxion, expanding to the PC gaming sector. Read More

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