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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023Liked by Em

Very excited to read your thoughts on K-Pop in China! Feel like it's going to be very relevant to my research lol

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"They phrased the post as a petition for authorities to release all the dan-gai that’s been abruptly banned from airing in 2021"

The funny thing about this is, from the danmei I've read (in translation; a decent number but not everything that's there, admittedly) law enforcement, however that looks in the world of the novel, is often central to the narrative. Surveillance is panopticon level; the copaganda sounds sincere and not even a little satirical - if the NRTA or whoever had any sense, they'd release all the dangai, because the authors are often fully and perhaps strategically on the side of the state.

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