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Research Interfaces
Forty Episodes is an ongoing public digital-research project studying how territorial licensing, platform access, subtitles, and dubbing determine whether Chinese television can travel.
The interface as research
An English-language reference organized by title and country makes distribution conditions visible: where episodes can be watched, on what terms, and in which languages. Database and interface design become ways of presenting knowledge about cultural transmission.
A published manual method
A route connects one title, one platform, and one country. The published protocol requires a person to open it and record the verification date.
- Establish the territory. Check through a connection in the listed country and confirm its location.
- Test the platform first. Open a title known to be carried there before interpreting an unsuccessful search. If that test fails, discard the reading.
- Verify episode access. Episodes must play or be visibly posted behind a named plan. Opening-episode samplers do not qualify as routes.
- Read language and price conditions together. Check subtitle and dub lists in the same sitting; public-page-only language readings are minimums. Count free episodes separately by country.
- Separate leads from evidence. Aggregator listings require independent checks on the platform in that country.
- Preserve time and change. Keep verification dates and stale-record notices. Since 19 September 2026, route changes are logged with dates, previous and new values, and evidence.
One published title-country record
PURSUIT OF JADE · UNITED STATES · WETV, ENGLISH-DUBBED EDITION
- Title
- Pursuit of Jade / 逐玉
- Country
- United States
- Platform / edition
- WeTV · English-dubbed edition
- Episode access
- 40 episodes. Episodes 1–2 free, then VIP.
- Subtitles
- English, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
- Dub
- English
- Last checked by Forty Episodes
- 29 September 2026
- Status on the source page
- Due a re-check
This is a dated record reproduced from the public title page, not a fresh claim that access remains unchanged. The page also distinguishes the original, English-dubbed, and Thai-dubbed WeTV editions.
Inspect the source record ↗From records to research questions
The Industry page’s worked cases, dated 7 October 2026, distinguish a served title (Pursuit of Jade), a possible language-access gap (Hidden Love in Brazil), and an upcoming title whose availability still needs checking (Chasing Dreams). These are dated analyses rather than a substitute for each route’s own check date.
The research distinguishes demand from availability. Finding no streaming option does not establish that licensing rights are available; the project does not have rights contracts or deal prices.
Read the worked research cases ↗Authorship & practice
Editorial role: the live site credits its editor as Eden. Its About page identifies the editor’s Brown MA, Notre Dame degrees, and documentary After the Race. Read the published editorial credit ↗
Publishing organization: Forty Episodes is published by Ribcage Pictures; Joyce is its founder.
Research and interface evidence: the published protocol, dated title-country records, worked analyses, and country-specific interface show the project’s research and design practice. They bring platform studies, translation and accessibility research, and territorial distribution analysis into a public interface.