Translated from 墨香铜臭传获刑三年，耽改IP的好日子到头了吗 Translator’s note: The Paper (Chinese: 澎湃新闻; lit. ‘Surging News’) is a Chinese digital newspaper owned and run by the state-owned Shanghai United Media Group. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Reportedly Sentenced to...
Original Post on CNN, 2018-11-19 Beijing(CNN) - A Chinese novelist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for writing and distributing homoerotic novels, provoking widespread debate online over the severity of her sentence. The female writer, surnamed Liu, but more commonly known by her internet pseudonym Tianyi, was arrested in 2017 following the success of her novel “Occupy,” according to reports in Chinese state media. The book was described by police in East China’s Anhui Province as depicting “obscene sexual behavior between males” set to themes of “violence, abuse and humiliation....