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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 Media | Large-Scale Arrests of Haitang Web Novel Authors in Lanzhou: “Deep-Sea Fishing” Targeting the Marginalized and Powerless (Translation)
6.12 ABC | Police in China arrest female authors of homosexual novels in crackdown on ‘boys love’ fiction genre
6.13 Initium Media | The Price of Boys’ Love: A Law Enforcement Storm Targeting Haitang Authors (Translation)
6.26 The Economist | Chinese cops are cuffing erotica
6.28 New York Times | Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels
6.30 BBC | ‘Every word has come back to haunt me’: China cracks down on women who write gay erotica
6.30 Advocate | Chinese police arrest dozens of gay erotica writers in pornography crackdown
6.30 them | A Wave of Arrests in China Is Targeting Gay Erotica Authors
7.2 BBC | TikTok News Video
Research Articles
2025.3.19 Liang Ge | The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry
Editorial Comments
2025.6.1 Li Yuchen | Lanzhou Police Cross Provinces to Arrest a Group of Female College Students Writing Novels (Translation)