Tears in the Grinder! A Generation of Chinese Drained Dry by the Film and TV Industry

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Hengdian World Studios in Jinhua, Zhejiang, is known as China’s “dream factory” for film and television. But today, it looks more like a high-speed meat grinder. Hundreds of thousands of people compete for just 2,000 or 3,000 extra roles; working 15 to 16 hours a day is considered normal rather than overtime. Heatstroke, sudden death, unpaid wages, and people going missing are treated as “acceptable losses” within the industry. The so-called short-drama boom is extracting every last drop from those at the very bottom, at the lowest possible cost.

Tears in the Grinder! A Generation of Chinese Drained Dry by the Film and TV Industry


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