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China’s arrests of boys’ love authors does not equate to a ‘gay erotica’ crackdown

  • Written by Michel Hockx, Director of the Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
China’s arrests of boys’ love authors does not equate to a ‘gay erotica’ crackdown'Boys' love' literature depicts an idealized version of gay male sex.Ed Gottschalk/Wikimedia Commons

Western media was quick to report on the subject of the latest “crackdown” in China: a writing genre known as “boys’ love.”

News articles in the U.K. and U.S. reported “mounting public anger” over the “s...

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