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In China, a quiet revolution has reshaped the way audiences consume stories. Known as Duanju, these short dramas, packaged in one to...

In 2020, in the midst of the municipal election campaign, 5G entered the public debate. Green mayor Éric Piolle launched a striking statement on RTL: "5G is so we can watch porn movies even when you're in your elevator in HD." A provocation intended to denounce the energy consumption of digital technology and question the notion of progress. Five years later, what was a witty remark has become reality: 5G makes it possible to seamlessly watch Duanju series even in the most un

During his opening speech at the 2025 La Rochelle Fiction Festival, Gaëtan Bruel, president of the French National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), addressed the phenomenon of micro-dramas, better known in China as duanju. Rather than seeing it as the emergence of a new audiovisual language, he described it as “the perfect counterexample” of what a national screen culture should defend. That reaction reveals a deeper confusion between a format and the commercial