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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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...
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Original Chinese Version _Translator’s note: The lack of detailed depiction of police brutality is not an editorial choice; the author has stated that she was forbidden by the police to talk about some of the details during the interrogation. _ 2025-06-02 On August 1 last year, around 3pm, my mother suddenly shouted my name loudly on the first floor. She kept shouting, asking me to go downstairs. At that moment, I actually felt something was wrong, because she has never shouted my name like that....
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...
Orignal Chinese Version 2025-05-31 I am going to Lanzhou next week, feeling desperate. I finally gained a few readers who like me after starting writing. When I was happy to meet those loving readers and friends, what they tipped me became the ironclad evidence of my profiteering. I just passed the postgraduate entrance examination this year, found a temporary job, and made plans with friends to go out for a trip and wait for the start of school in September....
Original Chinese Version 2025-05-30 I am the author of ….. There are many things I want to say, but I keep writing and deleting them over and over again…They gave me some warnings, I cannot say anything related. For the first time, I learned that even without drinking water, a person can cry so many tears. Almost every night, I suffer from insomnia.When I finally fell asleep, the nightmares woke me up and I was back to that day again....
Original Chinese Version Translator’s note: The police have issued summoning orders to writers living outside Lanzhou and they’re legally bound to travel there. No financial aid for traveling either if you cannot afford it you just become a criminal by not showing up. 2025-05-30 In the past twenty years of my life, I may have never thought that the first time I were to fly would be to get to the police station in Lanzhou....
Original Chinese Version Translator’s note: The police have issued summoning orders to writers living outside Lanzhou and they’re legally bound to travel there. No financial aid for traveling either if you cannot afford it you just become a criminal by not showing up. 2025-05-16 Yesterday, I finished my one-day trip to Lanzhou. I took a rest for the whole day. When asked what my biggest thought is, it will probably be that I left too hastily, Lanzhou was so cold, and I was still wearing a short-sleeved shirt from Chongqing....