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Original Report | Advocate Chinese police arrest dozens of gay erotica writers in pornography crackdown by Ryan Adamczeski 2025-6-30 Attorneys in China claim between 30 and 50 writers have been arrested this year for writing gay erotica. Dozens of writers have been arrested in China this year for publishing gay erotica online as law enforcement’s crackdown on pornography increasingly targets LGBTQ+ stories. Police have arrested as many as 50 writers in Gansu in the past several weeks, according to The New York Times, which spoke with two lawyers representing detained authors who said they knew of at least six other cases....

Original Post | BBC ‘Every word has come back to haunt me’: China cracks down on women who write gay erotica 2025-6-30 by Yi Ma & Eunice Yang Asia | China | Women Several women say they have been arrested for writing gay erotica, or “danmei” “I’ve been warned not to talk about it,” the woman wrote, before revealing snippets of the day she says she was arrested for publishing gay erotica....

Original Report | them A Wave of Arrests in China Is Targeting Gay Erotica Authors At least 30 writers of danmei, or “boys’ love” fiction, have been arrested on obscenity charges in the last four months. by Samantha Riedel 2025-6-30 At least 30 writers of danmei, or “boys’ love” fiction, have been arrested in China on obscenity charges in the last four months, lawyers told the BBC this week. The targeted authors’ danmei novels — a genre which can range between male-male romance stories and erotica, some of which have been adapted into hit series like The Untamed — were published on Haitang Literature City, a popular danmei platform with servers in Taiwan....

Original Report | From the 2025-6-28 edition, Page 35 A crackdown on erotic writers Giant cuffs BEIJING Local police have found a perverse way to raise money “In my twenty years of life, I never thought my first flight would be to a Lanzhou police station.” So wrote one young woman who, in the past few weeks. says she was ordered to leave her home and report to authorities in the faraway capital of Gansu province, in the parched north-west....

Translated from 端傳媒｜耽美的代价：一场围捕海棠作者的执法风暴 The Price of Boys’ Love: A Law Enforcement Storm Targeting Haitang Authors By Contributors Gan Yeyu and Yiyi Published June 13, 2025 Mainland China / Politics / LGBTQ+ / Women & Feminism / Censorship / Sexuality / Gender / Law /...

Translated from 端傳媒評論｜蘭州大規模抓捕海棠網文作者：「遠洋捕撈」對準底層哀民 Commentary | Large-Scale Arrests of Haitang Web Novel Authors in Lanzhou: “Deep-Sea Fishing” Targeting the Marginalized and Powerless By Li Meng, Watcher of Chinese internet culture and subcultures Published on June 10, 2025 A series of...

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for other languages 中文 Chinese version 日本語 Japanese Version Campaign Flyer: the freedom from fear You might have read Heaven Official’s Blessing, but did you know… Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, the author of this beloved work, was sentenced in 2018 for “illegal publicati...

Translated from 联合早报：港媒：多名耽美写手遭兰州警方跨省传唤 Translator’s note: Lianhe Zaobao is one of the largest Singaporean Chinese-language newspapers. According to reports from Hong Kong media, several online authors in mainland China have recently been summoned across provinces by police in...

For more untranslated Chinese reports, please visit here. Media Reports 2018.11 CNN | Chinese writer sentenced to 10 years in prison for homoerotic book 2020.11 The Paper 澎湃新闻 | Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Reportedly Sentenced to Three Years — Is This the End of the Golden Era for Danmei Adaptations? (Translation) 2025.6.6 Caixin Global | Police in Northwest China Detain Writers of Gay Erotic Fiction 6.10 Initium...