collectively written online Chinese gangster story
ESWN posts a magnificent (as usual) translation of a massive Chinese BBS forum post. This one, from popular BBS Tianya, was written in June 2005 and has gotten 1.7 million pageviews and 21,000 comments as of today. ESWN translates a fraction of the action, which is called My Seven Years in World of Gangsters, and is juicy with details like a huge green dragon tattoo, a guy with a crewcut and three pigtails, and hiding in the ditch of a public toilet to escape a beating.
The post didn’t start out as a collective project, or necessarily even as fiction at all. But somewhere along the line other commentators jumped in to continue or augment the story line. The end of the ESWN translation: “The translator does not know how long the story goes on because he has not made it past even a fraction of the comments…”
Now it would be real sweet if this made its way into print. Though perhaps print is not a suitable medium.
“hiding in the ditch of a public toilet”… omg! barfbarf!
Dude, that’s hella nasty! But that’s very interesting. It now seems like only a select few will be able to tell fact from fiction.
I wouldn’t mind a printed version, but the transcription might be a little tricky.
Massive collectively-written Chinese gangster fiction
Over at the excellent Virtual China blog, my Institute for the Future colleague Lyn Jeffery posts about a massive Chinese BBS forum where participants are collaboratively writing a story called “My Seven Years in World of Gangsters.” So far, there are …
What about an anime version that you can view on your mobile? I heard that some guy in China is producing a mobile version of the story.
Fan Fiction Unleashed
Via the supersite BoingBoing via ThePublishingSpot favorite, The Institute for the Future, I read this amazing bit of Chinese mass fiction. It’s a gangster story posted in episodes written by warring authors, the kind of publishing melee that onl…
hiding in the ditch of the toilet is not unheard of. Several years ago, a high profile case concerned a man who hid in the public toilet ditch so he could look up the skirts of ladies squatting over the hole. he was caught after one lady saw something move below her and called the police. the man was caught after police were drand to the shit all over his ankles
Chinese Gangster Story
Two weeks ago, alerted by supersite BoingBoing and The Institute for the Future, I wrote here about an amazing bit of Chinese mass written fiction. It’s an episodic gangster story written by competing authors:In the following, there is the …