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@ZeyiYang @WIRED A friendly suggestion: could you take off the red frame on authors’ name? In China the frames are for dead authors…

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‘If you fancy Sylus from the game @Love_Deepspace, for example, you can buy a mini Sylus cotton baby and raise it as your child. There is a popular saying about such virtual families: Mum is a bunch of cells, Dad is a string of data and the child is a ball of cotton.’

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“while capitalists would rather throw away their goods than give them to workers, we workers would rather be idle than give our labour to capitalists.”

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“while capitalists would rather throw away their goods than give them to workers, we workers would rather be idle than give our labour to capitalists.”

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10 billion yuan and climbing

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‘According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the web-novel market in China was worth 40 billion RMB in 2023 and has 24 million writers, 36 million works and more than half a billion readers.’

Yun Sheng on ‘boys’ love’ fanfiction in China: https://t.co/6LIkFb2MHT

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‘BL isn’t really about homosexuality (few gay men read it). It's an escape for women. With two men as protagonists, everything is possible and no reader feels offended.’

Yun Sheng on ‘boys’ love’ fan fiction in China:
https://t.co/6LIkFb2MHT

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‘A generation of schoolgirls are growing up reading BL, just as we read the romance novels of Chiung Yao in the 1980s.’

Yun Sheng on the boom in ‘boys’ love’ fan fiction in China:
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‘Infatuation with animated characters is common for “otakus” – they rarely have the guts to talk to real girls, or if they have, they either failed, or worse, been humiliated.’

Yun Sheng on the rise of virtual relationships.

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Yun Sheng on Otome games and ACGN culture, Paper People: https://t.co/K1RIimeaoc

[ShanghaiEye🚀official @ShanghaiEye]

Three years after the success of "Myth of Love," writer and film director Shao Yihui's new film, "Her Story" will open in cinemas across China on November 22. Shao and the film's cast attended special screenings over the weekend at the Shanghai Film Art Center and the Shanghai Center Theater. #ShanghaiEye爱上海

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