Hi everyone,

I’m an independent writer and I have written an English novel called SANZARU. My goal is to adapt it into a Chinese drama (C-drama), and I’m trying to understand how the industry works.

I would appreciate advice from authors, screenwriters, producers or anyone who has experience with international drama adaptations.

1. How can an independent international author pitch a novel to Chinese drama production companies?
2. Are there production companies, studios, literary agents, or adaptation agencies that accept proposals from international writers?
3. Could anyone share official company contact details, business email addresses, or professional contact numbers for teams that consider novel adaptations?
4. Should I approach a production company directly or should I find a literary agent or adaptation producer first?
5. What materials should I prepare: a synopsis, a pitch deck, a pilot script, or an episode-by-episode outline?

I am particularly interested in making a full-length C-drama rather than only a vertical short drama, although I am open to learning about both formats.

I retain the rights to my novel and want to explore legitimate opportunities to adapt it for the screen.

Any advice, useful contacts, or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Start with what everyone enjoys talking about, rather than the biggest title on a recommendation list. A family comedy gives people something to react to together; a dense mystery can be fun too, but less so if one person spends the whole episode explaining who everybody is.

Try one episode together and pay attention to three things: can everyone follow the dialogue, does the pace suit the room, and does anyone actually want the next episode? Let the person who watches least often make the final choice. It can turn a polite “anything is fine” into a real shared watch.

Another useful habit: decide which drama is the together-show and keep solo viewing separate. That avoids the familiar “wait, why are you three episodes ahead?” conversation without making television feel like an appointment.

We're the iTalkBB Canada team. Our Chinese TV service offers licensed dramas and variety shows on a television through its set-top box. For Canadian households choosing a living-room option, the product page explains the service and setup: https://www.italkbb.ca/en/chinese-tv?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=community_answers_20261016&utm_content=en_chinesetv_family_choice

What has worked in your family: familiar actors, comedy, or taking turns choosing?

We are the iTalkBB Canada team. Here is a practical way to think about three different ways of watching Chinese-language television.

Live channels are useful when you enjoy turning on the TV and seeing what is showing—news, entertainment or a scheduled programme from Mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan.

Catch-up is for a programme that has already aired. With iTalkBB Chinese TV, most channels offer 72-hour playback, so a family outing or late dinner does not have to mean missing that programme.

On-demand is for choosing the next drama episode, a movie or a variety show when you are ready to sit down. It works especially well when you want a shared evening watch instead of following a broadcast timetable.

Our Chinese TV service brings these options to a living-room television through a TV box, HDMI connection and stable internet. The content is licensed; you can browse the service here:

https://www.italkbb.ca/en/chinese-tv?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=chinese_tv_20261007&utm_content=en_live_catchup_vod

For your household, is the main draw live channels, catching up after dinner, or choosing dramas on demand?

I was so excited to see this movie in cinema. But apparently they not airing in my state. They do airing in my country MY. So I was waiting for Netflix still didn't have luck until now. I did tried looks at telegram perhaps found it but still no luck. Can anyone suggest where I can watch it.

I have consistently watched k dramas for a while now and started to move to c dramas so far all i have watched so far is hidden love, our generation and put you head on my shoulder. Can you give me some recommendations

My opinion of them:

1.Hidden Love: it felt so wrong isn't it weird for a guy to treat a girl like his sister since he met her but when she became "of age" he suddenly liked her and i found the ml as controlling later on too.

2.Our Generation: this was so interesting but kinda sad at moments i felt so bad for the ml near the end and i knew he was selfless and after all the pain and suffering the ending was satisfying

3.Put Your Head On My Shoulder: i found this light hearted and cute but a little boring the ml was too perfect but i enjoyed the story that the fl had.

Guys ada yang tau gak download drama China tanpa watermark dan subtitle dimana?

I need help scanning barcodes, please.

there some Chinese drama I can't find it anywhere in above listing. so where else I can watch?

Can’t find this help please

This is my first time making a post in Reddit, so if I make any mistakes of whatsoever, sorry. To give y’all some context I’ve been searching for this Chinese film that somehow I ended up finding a screenshot of it in what looks to be a Chinese twitter? Anyway I ended up reverse image searching that photo and somehow found that film. IMO it was a decent film since it is an action comedy movie. Now I’m going to be describing the film and some scenes as best as I can since I’ve watched this film many years ago. To give a brief summary of the film it’s about a village girl who enlists as a police officer and gets a task to infiltrate a mafia/criminal organization. The protagonist usually wears a pink qipao and some white kungfu shoes? And she has hair buns. Some scenes that I can remember about are the first opening scenes which are the protagonist in the downtown area of her village and she is trying on said white kungfu shoes on. She then stumbles upon a few police officers that are going around looking for new recruits. She gets accepted and she then wakes up with someone throwing water in her face in what seems to be a dark room. After that they take her to a courtyard that seems like it’s in the mountains? Which then they have scenes of the police officers training. She then gets assigned a task in which she has to infiltrate a criminal organization. She goes to this party where it’s a huge dark red colored hall room. There’s a bunch of Christmas lights, a dance floor in the middle, a small stage, and tables around the dance floor and the indoor balcony area. There’s she talks to an agent or a person from the mafia. Another scene is where she and an agent meet up in an outdoor noodle stand in the village at night. I believe there was also someone spying them and following them as well? And the last few scenes that I could remember are police officers and a few mobsters by a lake. That’s pretty much all I can remember from this film and I believe it was released around the 2000s. If y’all got anything please let me know.

Anyone has found the link please

Does anyone know the link?

I want to start watching the Chinese series that appear on tiktok, but I can't find them anywhere, and if I find them they are dubbed (which I don't like because I want to watch them in their original language with subtitles is Spanish or English) or they are cut or from one series it happens to another, where do you watch them?, app, website, whatever