Feb 12 2024 38 mins 3
Started as a grassroots movement in the early Chinese internet, web novels slowly became a powerhouse of China’s cultural industry by producing powerful IPs. How did this industry came to be?
Featuring
- Tage : Author
- Wei Xiaoma : IP Licensing Manager
- Yang Zeyi : Technology Reporter
To go further
- Middle Earth episode #92 How writers, bookstore owners, and printers survive in China’s publishing industry
- Middle Earth episode #69 The Seducing Power of IPs
- Middle Earth episode #90 Women in China’s Cultural Industries
- Middle Earth episode #79 Exploring Wuxia (think "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon")
- Bitter No More: How Young Chinese Became Obsessed With TCM, article by Shao Yefan
- China is reinventing the way the world reads, article by Yang Zeyi
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With thanks to Ren Jiayin for production assistant, Li Muyuan for voice over and Sean Calvo for music support.
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