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"ref": "2026 May 3, Jiawei Wang, Ben Laffin, Rafaela Balster, “Video: A.I. Shakes Up China’s Entertainment Landscape”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "A.I. is changing China’s entertainment industry, and transforming one of its most popular genres: the microdrama. […] Xing Enran has been a microdrama actress since 2023, taking on supporting roles, and often playing the seductress.",
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"(film) A short (typically minuteslong) serialized show made for the phone, characterized by rapid plot development, and originally developed in China."
],
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"word": "duanju"
},
{
"word": "vertical drama"
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{
"word": "mobile drama"
}
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"ref": "2006, Louis Greenberg, The Beggars' Signwriters, page 120:",
"text": "Gay Charles spectated the microdrama with a sagacious and equivocal eye. He'd seen it all. Well, he hadn't seen Not Mrs Crackety's headscarf blow off, but he could quite well imagine what it might look like.",
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"ref": "2009, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, →ISBN, page 112:",
"text": "This microdrama reveals the remarkable emotional sophistication that a toddler of just thirty months can bring to bear in trying to manage someone else's emotions.",
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"ref": "2015, Karen Piper, Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A., →ISBN, page 54:",
"text": "Scholars have long portrayed the historical Owens Valley-Los Angeles conflict as a polarized regional microdrama that is isolated in the past, without looking at the colonial context or the continuation of the conflict today.",
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"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"roman": "duǎnjù",
"sense": "short serialized show",
"word": "短劇 /短剧"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "short serialized show",
"word": "短編ドラマ"
}
],
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}
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