💬 Opinion 2d ago · R. Taggart Murphy

How ‘Boys Love’ Conquered Asia

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How ‘Boys Love’ Conquered Asia
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In the last week of July, two incidents involving disruptive Chinese fans of a genre of Asian media triggered something close to a crisis in international relations.  Security personnel had forcibly removed a Chinese woman from an event in Bangkok. Patrons of this type of event, known as a “fan meet,” pay considerable sums to see their favorite entertainers in person, hear them being interviewed, and watch them perform song-and-dance routines. Tens of thousands of Chinese went

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