The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel-laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely hailed as a golden-age of sci-fi. Chinese online fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world.
Megan Walsh is a journalist and writer who specializes in Chinese literature and film. She has lived in Beijing and Tapiei, and holds a Masters in Chinese Literature and Film for SOAS. Her work has appeared in The New Statesman, The Times of London, Lithub and The Wall Street Journal, and she was on the books desk at The Times of London, where she reported on contemporary art a...