The tropes, jargon and conventions of Western slash fandom have also been imported via the Internet and begun to merge with those of the Japan-originated BL fandom in the Chinese-speaking cyberspace.
Lavin, Maud; Yang, Ling; Zhao, Jing Jamie 2017. Boy’s Love, Cosplay and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures In Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hong Kong University Press, HKU, XVIII.
Despite the fact that queer fan practices have enjoyed a long local tradition in China, contemporary Chinese-speaking queer fan cultures have also been shaped by the incessant and complex transregional, cross-cultural, and transnational cultural flows among East Asian cultures and between the East and the West – as well as positionings vis-á-vis official culture and traiditonal norms.
Lavin, Maud; Yang, Ling; Zhao, Jing Jamie 2017. Boy’s Love, Cosplay and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures In Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hong Kong University Press, HKU, XII.
The multiple influences in Chinese speaking online BL-fandom