The year 2015 saw another boom in TV drama adaptations of online literature. Despite the difficulty of adapting original works, these popular novels on the Internet were screened one by one. Some enjoyed a great success while some were criticized by the audiences. Both the winners and losers tried to have artistic settings through projecting an aesthetic world and put an emphasis on charming appeal of both male and female protagonists. In others words, the lead roles in these adaptations often have a "high face value", which has become an important selling point to attract more audiences.
Mr Wang Deyou used to have to pick up his online purchases at a nearby township, about 40 minutes away from his village of Zhuting in eastern Shandong province.
A National Retail Federation survey on Sunday found that more people shopped online than in stores during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend, a sign of how quickly and deeply American shopping habits have changed.
Smartphone in hand, Tibetan villager Zhoima stayed up late on Tuesday, waiting for the start of the 24-hour online shopping extravaganza known in China as Singles' Day.
China's online retailer JD.com will shut down online customer-to-customer (C2C) marketplace Paipai.com in three months in order to fight fake goods.
Only 58.7 percent of items in online trades were genuine or of good quality last year, a report delivered to Chinese lawmakers on Monday said.
Chinese consumers of luxury products are spending increasingly big money online, as growing use of smartphones makes Internet shopping ever easier, according to a new industry report.
Chinese consumers of luxury products are spending increasingly big money online, as growing use of smartphones makes Internet shopping ever easier, according to a new industry report.
The eating habits of urban Chinese have changed dramatically since the proliferation of takeaway food delivery apps has brought restaurant-quality meals to almost everyone's front door.
With a population of 649 million, the tastes of China's online community are transforming the domestic film industry, but insiders fear it is a change for the worse.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army is building a military-version of Taobao, China's largest online shopping website, in an effort to cut costs and improve efficiency in procurement.
Visiting Dinh Le street in Vietnam' s capital Hanoi, it is not so difficult to find publications of Chinese literature here. Numerous bookshops stand close together along the 200-meter long street, making Dinh Le a "book street" in Hanoi.
Visiting Dinh Le street in Vietnam' s capital Hanoi, it is not so difficult to find publications of Chinese literature here. Numerous bookshops stand close together along the 200-meter long street, making Dinh Le a "book street" in Hanoi.
Gong Xiaoming, an obstetrician at a public hospital in Shanghai, usually sees up to 30 outpatients a day, but when he writes an article about uterine fibroids it can easily draw tens of thousands clicks within a day on his microblog.
Discounted fancy clothes, sparkling jewelry and high-end handbags have failed to cheer up 22-year-old Fu Jie from south China's Hainan Province ahead of Singles' Day on Tuesday, a holiday marked by an annual national shopping spree.
With China's "Nov. 11" online shopping frenzy around the corner, foreign brands are expected to play a bigger role as competition heats up for this year's digital shopping dash.
China's top Internet watchdog on Sunday pledged to govern online space in accordance with the law, echoing the Party's embrace of rule of law at a key plenum.
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