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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.

19 juillet 2025 à 00:01
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.

Chen Tianming’s house, which evokes a Dr. Seuss drawing, has drawn gawkers to his rural corner of Guizhou Province, in southwestern China.
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Chinese University Expels Woman for ‘Improper Contact’ With a Foreigner

14 juillet 2025 à 05:56
The university published the student’s full name and said her behavior had “damaged national dignity.” The move prompted an online debate and accusations of sexism.

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Danylo Teslenko, who goes by the nickname Zeus, at a gaming event in Poland in 2019. Mr. Teslenko had shared videos of himself with a Chinese woman that led to her expulsion from university.

Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels

28 juin 2025 à 00:01
The genre known as Boys’ Love, stories written mostly by and for straight women, has been in the authorities’ sights for years.

© Siyi Zhao/The New York Times

A Beijing store selling merchandise based on Boys’ Love graphic novels. Boys’ Love fiction, about romance between men, has had a fervent niche following in China since the 1990s.
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