XChina Review

In the top menu, between the video list and the app download, sits a page of addresses. That is a specific institution rather than a quirk: sites serving mainland Chinese audiences maintain a page listing where else they can be found, because the current domain is expected to stop resolving. Publishing one is an admission that the address you arrived at is temporary, and it is the single most informative thing on the page about how this operates.

The apps for both mobile platforms follow the same logic, since an installed application survives what a web address does not.

The catalogue is Chinese-language production credited to its studios by name — the recognisable production houses of that market, alongside Taiwanese material, a well-known independent creator, and Japanese imports kept in their own section. A forum and an upload route mean part of it arrives from users.

There is a paid tier and a bilingual interface. The title and description are written for search in Chinese, which is where the audience is.