The agents hit the door in the early morning. A few moments later, the young woman found herself handcuffed, seated at the table of her show, to answer the dry questions of the police, before they took her to pursue the interrogation at the post. “What does you do to write this?” »»they ask him, also questioning him about his orientation and his sexual practices. The subject of this muscular investigation: the «Danmei»literally “indulging in beauty”, a literary genre written by women – as the author encountered by The worldE and who asked to remain anonymous – which stages romances between men, often with a certain level of description of sex scenes.
Inspired by a Japanese trend, the LOVE boys (“love of boys”), these novels conquer an increasing number of Chinese readers and also begin to meet success in the West. But they are not to the taste of the authorities in China, where the law prohibits erotic content.
For the past year, dozens of authors in these books in an electronic version have been arrested in a wave of repression of unprecedented magnitude, while power is increasingly suspicious of trends from the outside or which could pervert a traditionalist vision of society.
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