Chinese video sharing sites are great. They’re like youtube, only way faster and you can watch way longer clips.

Now one of the bonuses of these two features is that you can watch full length productions on there (often as high as 1 hour long videos), without having to wait for them to load as you sometimes might on youtube.

Of course, given that it is China the more “relaxed” approach to (Hollywood’s) intellectual property often results in many movies and TV shows being posted on there that many people would not agree with. Personally, I think we could do worse that expose a previously isolated country to our American culture through our pop media. And the citizen journalism that happens on there is a huge plus as well. But that’s another discussion…

Another reason why such movies and TV shows can fly under the radar is thanks to the stealth cloaking often referred to as Mandarin Chinese. Most people in America just can’t read the interface, and so box offices won’t lose any revenue as a result of these videos being online. (Of course it was a different story when TVlinks started embedding the Chinese videos on a site where English speaking viewers could find them!)

Anyway, to get to the point — if anyone was itching to check out these video sharing sites, but doesn’t read Chinese or doesn’t have Chinese software installed, here’s something you can try.

Here are the links to some of them, run through Google Translator:

The translation isn’t pretty, but you can browse around and navigate fairly easily.

Let me know if you find anything interesting. :)

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