The invisibly shifting red lines of Chinese internet censorship fuel a buzzing genre of content on how to avoid them. Some posts offer defiant tips on getting your point across without raising the alarm, while others treat...
Chinese authorities have arrested dozens of writers of Boys’ Love (BL), or danmei, a genre of online homoerotic fiction featuring male protagonists, and typically created by and for women. This latest crackdown appears driven by...
Chinese bookstore shelf arrangements rarely go viral—that is, unless they contain a hidden message...
“Kong Yiji literature” emerged as a self-deprecating meme among young Chinese netizens who joke that their academic credentials have made them “unemployable,” too overeducated or overqualified for the jobs currently available....
Wuhan, the epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic, has in recent days lifted its ten-week lockdown, allowing residents to leave their homes and travel outside the city, and some businesses to reopen. Raymond Zhong and Vivian...
The New Yorker this week features a piece of short fiction by Te-Ping Chen, drawing on her time as...
Dong Fangyu at China Daily writes that a shortage of competent translators is hampering Chinese...
Yiyun Li came to the US from Beijing in 1996 to do a PhD in immunology at the University of Iowa,...
While the Chinese LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in real life, online culture has...
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson looks at the prospects for translated Chinese works in America. Currently, the flow into China of books translated from English and other foreign languages is much larger than the...
The following fictional short story is being widely circulated among Chinese bloggers, translated by CDT: “Please Pay My Bill” Today is the weekend and my high school classmates wanted to have a reunion in the...
The following “Sci-Fi” short story has been (re)posted in many Chinese online forums and blogs, originally from SCI-FI Great Wall blog, translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan. July is the hottest month of the year in...
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