villainous friendJun 16, 2025

Of course it was. 😫

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/police-in-china-arrest-female-writers-over-homosexual-novels/105403258 via @wayofcloudbrain.bsky.social

#Haitang #FreeWritersOfHaitang #danmei #ChineseLiterature

villainous friendJun 8, 2025

A long and good article about the most recent sweep of Haitang danmei authors: https://freewriters-haitang.github.io/english/posts/000030-liyuchen/

Information page in English, Chinese and Japanese, with many writers’ accounts of arrest and interrogation: https://freewriters-haitang.github.io/english/

On Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Phoenix093 (Chinese)

#danmei #Haitang #ChineseLiterature #webnovels #FreeWritersOfHaitang

Editorial: Lanzhou Police Cross Provinces to Arrest a Group of Female College Students Writing Novels

Translated from 李宇琛：兰州警方跨省抓了一群写小说的女大学生 Translator’s note: China Digital Times (CDT; Chinese: 中国数字时代) is a California-based 501(c)(3) organization that runs a bilingual news website covering China. [404 Archive] Li Yuche

Show threadSlowRain Has Moved! See below.Jul 30, 2017
It appears #Typhoon #Nesat was a non-event. A bit of wind & heavy rain seems to be about all. #Haitang may be more of a tropical storm than an all-out typhoon.
SlowRain Has Moved! See below.Jul 29, 2017

Well, this is interesting. #Taiwan is being hit by 2 typhoons at pretty much the same time. Problem is, they're hitting on Sunday. Sunday of all days! So no #typhoon holiday for me. ☹

#haitang
#nesat