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From Vertical Screens to the Big Chart: How a Short-Drama Remake Topped Tencent's Rankings

'Such an Obedient Girl' began life as a vertical-screen micro-drama. A remake with proper actors, horizontal framing and a 19,000-plus heat score has just topped Tencent Video's drama charts, and the industry is asking whether short dramas have outgrown their format.

Life Stories

A One-Year-Old Ate a Poisoned Egg. The Neighbor Meant to Kill Weasels.

In a Guizhou village, a toddler suffered brain damage after eating an egg laced with a banned rat poison a neighbor had scattered to protect his chickens — a case that has turned rural pest control, and fluoroacetate, into a national question.

News & Politics

Gold's Cliff-Drop Night Puts China's Young Gold Buyers to the Test

Spot gold slid below $4,100 an ounce and silver fell more than 5 percent in a single session, and the drop lands on a generation of young Chinese who made the metal their savings account of choice.