[Protocol China] How a Chinese app could succeed where Quibi failed

06/29/21 • 8 min

Kuaishou won over Chinese viewers with cheaply produced, middlebrow dramas meant to be watched on phones. Now Tencent and ByteDance want in.

Read the article by Caiwei Chen: https://www.protocol.com/china/kuaishou-short-form-video

Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.

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Kuaishou won over Chinese viewers with cheaply produced, middlebrow dramas meant to be watched on phones. Now Tencent and ByteDance want in.

Read the article by Caiwei Chen: https://www.protocol.com/china/kuaishou-short-form-video

Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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[The Wire China] Hemmed in

Marjorie Yang has staked much of her textile empire on being socially responsible, and yet her firm, Esquel Group, ended up on the Entity List. Has the U.S. government gone too far by sanctioning Esquel Group?

Read the article by Katrina Northrop: https://www.thewirechina.com/2021/06/27/hemmed-in/

Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.

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Read the article: https://www.weekinchina.com/2021/06/summer-surprise/

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