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[personal profile] geraineon2024-05-05 01:35 pm
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[admin post] [sticky entry] Admin Post: Sticky: Community info, rules, and posting guidelines

This is a community dedicated to Chinese novels and media related to these novels (e.g., audio dramas, audio books, donghua adaptations, etc.). Most of the focus will be on Chinese webnovels, but if you'd like to discuss, e.g., a Chinese SFF novel, please feel free!

Requests, news, discussions, meta, reviews, recommendations, thoughts, questions all welcome. Fanworks, your fantranslations, relevant events, all great too~

It's likely things will evolve as time passes, as the community gets more of a feel of what people wants to see, or if there's specific things that needs to be changed, so I will update this post as we go too.

Rules and guidelines for posting and commenting:

1. Please don't hardcode colours or font types & sizes in your entries. This sometimes makes it hard for people to read in their own style.
2. Please fill the subject line, and use headers.
2.1 Content warnings are appreciated when recommending a title (e.g., ableism, rape, gore, racism/xenophobia, etc.).
3. Please member-lock all entries containing media downloads.
4. Please tag your entries. (see below)
5. Please put the following under a cut tag when posting: huge/multiple images, long text and any major spoilers. (see below)
6. When commenting, please also be mindful of spoilers. You can do that by using white text on white background (see below)
7. Please be respectful to other community members.
8. Feel free to cross-post!
9. If your posts includes NSFW material, whatever that may be, adjust the post's age restriction. The default is no restriction.

Tags:

This might change as the community gain members, but for now, let's go with all members get to make their own tags. But for organization's sake, please follow these tagging and tag creation guidelines.

1. Tag for type of media, author, whether it's baihe, danmei, bg, or other, and type of post.
2. Tags for baihe, danmei, bg, or other have been created. You can use type: danmei, type: baihe, type: bg, or type: other.
3. Tags for type of media has been created for novel, donghua, audio drama, drama have been created. If you need a different tag, please create it in the format "media type: [new tag]"
4. Tags for some types of post have been created. If you need a different tag, please create it in the format "post type: [type]"
5. Please create tags for authors in the format "author: [name]"
6. Please create tags for titles in the format "title: [name]"

HTML code for cut tag for posting/spoilers in reply:

<cut>for posting, this is where the text behind the cut goes</cut>

<cut text="you can replace the generic 'read more' here with your own text">this is where the text behind the cut goes</cut>

<b>For comments: Highlight for spoilers!</b> *<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

EDITED 2024/06/21: Paid account for [community profile] cnovels! Feel free to make polls here too~! Just tag it "post type: poll"
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[personal profile] geraineon2024-05-05 02:55 pm
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[sticky entry] Sticky: Introductions

Welcome! You can use this post to share a little bit of yourself! Feel free to also just post an introduction to the community instead of replying to this post! You don't have to follow any format, but here are some prompts:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What is your favourite cnovel?
3. Do you have a favourite author?
4. What are your other hobbies and interests?
5. What do you hope to see from this community?
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[personal profile] geraineon2024-10-09 07:20 pm
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[sticky entry] Sticky: Community highlights

This post is to pin the author spotlight posts, themed posts, and highlight currently on-going activities.

Author spotlight posts:
August: Jiang Zi Bei by [personal profile] geraineon
September: priest by [personal profile] momijizukamori
December: Ning Yuan by [personal profile] douqi
January: Yi Zhan Ye Deng by [personal profile] hazevi

Chi Hai Yun (池海筠) by [personal profile] lee_bella

Themed posts/themed weeks:
October: School-era romance by [personal profile] hazevi

Current activities
Legend of the Condor Heroes read-along

For suggestions, pitches (e.g., themed posts, themed weeks, other activities), please reply to the post here or send me message.

China Books Review Article

Thought people might be interested in this article "Translated Chinese Literature: New Fiction" from China Books Review.

2025 has seen a bumper crop for Chinese literature in translation. We recommend five recent titles, from gritty tales of the northeast to conjoined fiction from Hong Kong.


Of course, no danmei or baihe on the list, that's not nearly ~literary~ enough for this kinda thing, but I still thought it was nice to learn about some other titles outside my usual c-novel reading...


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[personal profile] geraineon2026-01-01 12:24 am

Happy New Year + Read-in-progress post

It's already Jan 1, 2026 where I am, so wishing everyone a very happy new year and I hope that this year will treat you much better than the last.

This is also your weekly read-in-progress post~

For spoilers:

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<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-12-26 01:04 am

Read-in-Progress Not Wednesday

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and happy weird inbetween (sort of holiday) time to the rest!

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-12-19 01:27 am

Read-in-progress (not) Wednesday!

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-12-11 11:35 am

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-12-07 07:10 pm

Paid account status

Thank you to the mysterious benefactor, [community profile] cnovels community is paid till 2026-01-22!

We should use more of the paid account features, like making polls and stuff.

(This is me, encouraging you to post silly-to-serious polls, while we have the power to do so!)
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-12-04 10:03 am

Read-in-Progress (not) Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-11-26 11:42 pm

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-11-20 12:40 pm

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

Note: I genuinely do not understand why my posts are not being posted even though I got the confirmation that the community has been updated with a new post, and this keeps happening. Is this happening to anyone else?
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[personal profile] anne2025-11-15 09:57 am
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Books on sale

I'm still boycotting Target, but they have all their books on sale 3 for 2. Several of the older ones are discounted even before the sale, so hopefully they're losing money on those. I admit that I caved and preordered QJJ 7 and Three Hundred Years of Longing 1-2, plus QJJ 1-5 and The Beauty's Blade for a Canadian friend who's coming for a visit.

The sale ends tonight at midnight Pacific.
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-11-12 09:33 pm

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

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review: The Fourteenth Year of Chenghua by Meng Xi Shi

Took me 2,5 months but I've now finished The 14th Year Of Chenghua, yay! My thoughts on the novel are here:

The Fourteenth Year of Chenghua by Meng Xi Shi 

Seven Seas November Survey

It's that time again, where we can yell at Seven Seas to license things, if we want to. The form is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvAPVF2HMoIrv7wowUqGt02rRrY6a-heUf5RJutEoiQ1Cvvw/viewform
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-11-06 06:14 am

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

(I hope you are not seeing this post multiple times because it just refuses to post [or if it did, it's not appearing for me])

Pre-orders are open for two Ning Yuan novels!

Rosmei's pre-orders for volumes 1 and 2 of At The World's Mercy (aka At Her Mercy) and volume 1 of The Creator's Grace are now open!

Someone's started compiling a list of pre-order links for various shipping partners and group orders here.
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-10-29 10:01 pm

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*
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[personal profile] geraineon2025-10-22 09:24 pm

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

Translation update for Reading the Remnants!

As of yesterday, Pale Mirror's finished editing their translation of Reading the Remnants and has posted EPUBs and PDFs for it!