Chinese Online Literature

In the first episode of our series on Chinese literature, Andrew Rule explains the wild world of Chinese Internet Fiction. This might be the biggest literary format in the world today, but it is barely known in the West. Andrew reveals the reasons for its popularity in China, its relative obscurity in the English-speaking world, the commercial pressures on writers, and the romance between China's greatest heroine and Lord Voldemort. You can find Andrew Rule’s Substack here: https://coldwindow.substack.com/Check out his guide to internet literature here: https://coldwindow.substack.com/p/the-cold-window-guide-to-chineseYou can also learn about Andrew’s translation work here: https://paper-republic.org/pers/andrew-rule/Contact me with feedback and suggestions at [email protected] find out more about the Society, visit our website: www.sacu.orgIntro/outro music: Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 19 (Frederic Chopin), by Gregor Quendel/classics.de (CC BY-SA 4.0)