{"id":53353,"date":"2023-03-13T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/chinas-rotten-girls-are-escaping-into-erotic-fiction-about-gay-men"},"modified":"2023-03-13T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:13:22","slug":"chinas-rotten-girls-are-escaping-into-erotic-fiction-about-gay-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53353","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018rotten girls\u2019 are escaping into erotic fiction about gay men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed by the Communist party<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hand around his waist held him tighter, their bodies pressed closer together, and Xie Lian\u2019s struggling hands were firmly folded and crushed against his own chest; unable to move. His lips were still securely sealed, the kiss deepening, and a stream of gentle, chilled air slowly passed through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A god kisses a ghost king, and a love story, movie deal and KFC sponsorship are born. The kiss appears in the book Heaven Official\u2019s Blessing, a danmei or \u201cboys love\u201d story. Danmei is romantic fiction about men or male beings \u2013 ghosts, foxes, even a mushroom \u2013 falling in love, written almost exclusively by and for straight women and is the most popular genre of fiction in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/chinas-rotten-girls-are-escaping-into-erotic-fiction-about-gay-men\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danmei is by some measures the most popular genre of fiction for women in China, and its popularity hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed by the Communist party\u201cThe hand around his waist held him tighter, their bodies pressed closer together, and Xie Lian\u2019s struggling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,50,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china","category-feminism"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53354,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53353\/revisions\/53354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}