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Thoughts on this stuff.
Based CCP Though, at least.
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China’s ‘rotten girls’ are escaping into erotic fiction about gay men
Danmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Communist party
www.theguardian.com
A god kisses a ghost king, and a love story, movie deal and KFC sponsorship are born. The kiss appears in the book Heaven Official’s Blessing, a danmei or “boys love” story. Danmei is romantic fiction about men or male beings – ghosts, foxes, even a mushroom – falling in love, written almost exclusively by and for straight women and is the most popular genre of fiction in China. Heaven Official’s Blessing is the most popular book on Jinjiang Literature City, China’s main danmei site, but its author’s identity is a secret. Like many danmei writers, she publishes under a pseudonym, in this case Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (“fragrance of ink, odour of money”)
Each chapter of Heaven Official’s Blessing has been read an average of 2.4m times, according to a study by Aiqing Wang, a lecturer on Chinese at the University of Liverpool’s Department of Languages, Cultures and Film. Of Jinjiang’s seven million registered users, 93% are women. 84% are between 18 and 35 years old. KFC’s sponsorship deal saw the chain decorate its stores with giant illustrations of the story’s main characters and produce special menu items and merchandise. The anime series is available on Netflix.
Based CCP Though, at least.
Several danmei writers have been jailed by the CCP, which uses pornography rules to crack down on writers whose books get too popular or are too homoerotic. In 2014 a writer called Big Grey Wolf was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. In 2018, a danmei author, a woman identified only as Liu, was sentenced to more than a decade in prison. In 2019, police arrested eight danmei writers, sentencing one of them for four years.
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Feminist-utopian pornographic fantasy?
Fans argue over whether danmei stories are feminist: do they allow women to explore the ideal of love between equals, or reinforce heteronormative ideas of romantic relationships as involving one dominant and one submissive partner? Wang believes danmei stories are feminist: they’re stories about men and what ideal love looks like from a female perspective. She has referred to them in her academic writing as, “feminist-utopian pornographic fantasy”. And whether danmei writers are good feminists or not, the stories are fun: she still reads them to relax.