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Book Chapter
The Bottom Line
2015
Overview
This chapter is about online fiction. It starts with a brief overview of the basic features of genre fiction websites, drawing examples mainly from the highly popular Qidian (Starting Point) site, which is widely believed to have pioneered what is now the most common business model for such sites. The second part of the chapter turns to issues of regulation and transgression, focusing on state attempts to curb what it considers erotic and obscene content. It attempts to understand how this is defined and assessed by looking at examples from the Feilu (Flying Gourd) fiction site, which regularly featured on blacklists published by the state regulator in 2010 and 2011. The third part presents a short case study of the website Heilan (Black and Blue) and its various activities and publications. Black and Blue is the online home of a long-standing avant-garde writing community whose preferred genre is fiction. The chapter also provides further evidence of how Internet literature is moving into new, non-web-based media.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780231160827, 0231160828
