Where to watch every Chinese drama and short drama
2397 titles across 11 platforms · 1663 with confirmed watch links · audio & subtitle languages for each · rebuilt daily from the platforms' own catalogs.
🔊 English audio C-dramas 1521 Short dramas 876 Viki 722NetShort 314YouTube 288iQIYI 216DramaBox 182ReelShort 160 How to watch →
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Full weekly drop →8+ new short dramas · 4+ C-dramas with new episodes — pulled from the platforms' catalogs, not press releases.
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All guides →Your first C-drama, by taste
Ten doors into Chinese TV. Pick the one that matches what you already like.
Finish it in a weekend: the best C-dramas under 16 episodes
Prestige-length Chinese series, 12–16 episodes, mostly crime and thriller.
Xianxia starter pack: immortals, demons and 3,000-year love stories
The genre that makes C-drama C-drama. Ranked from easiest to most emotionally punishing.
Chinese crime & thriller dramas worth your time
From iQIYI's Mist Theater to 20-year gangster sagas.
Palace intrigue: concubines, empresses and very long games
The 宫斗 canon, in the order to watch it.
BL, danmei adaptations and bromance
What China's censors allow — and the shows that became global phenomena anyway.
Editor's picks
All C-dramas →Vertical short dramas
All short dramas →1–2 minute episodes, 50–100 per series, English audio, built for your phone. Every entry links straight to episode 1 and names the Chinese trope it's remixing.
Every English short drama is a remix of a Chinese web-fiction trope. The glossary →
总裁文 · CEO Romance 429打脸 · Face-Slap 331狼人/吸血鬼 · Werewolves & Vampires 197追妻火葬场 · Regret & Chase 118重生 · Rebirth 100隐藏大佬 · Hidden Big Shot 93大女主 · Big Female Lead 72禁忌之恋 · Forbidden Love 67契约婚姻 · Contract Marriage 63战神归来 · War God Returns 59萌宝 · Cute Baby 58真假千金 · Real vs Fake Heiress 52
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What is this?
Chinese dramas are now on Netflix, Viki, iQIYI, WeTV and YouTube, and vertical short dramas have become a multi-billion-dollar export with their own apps. Nobody indexes all of it in one place. DramaDex does: which platform has which title, in which languages, with links that go straight to the player — rebuilt automatically every day from the platforms' public catalogs. More about how we work →