Midsummer (予我盛夏): Pre-Orders Open

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Pre-orders are currently open for the print edition of university romance Midsummer (予我盛夏, pinyin: yu wo shengxia) by Qing Tang Shuan Xiang Cai (清汤涮项菜), originally serialised online as Making My Heart Skip a Beat (予我心动, pinyin: yu wo xindong). This is the mainland simplified Chinese edition, so will be censored. An uncensored, simplified Chinese print edition was released in 2023 by Hong Kong-based publisher Cherry-Apple Cultural and Creative Ltd (which gave the novel the English title Flipped For You, a formulation so horrifying that I keep trying to forget it and failing).

Pre-orders can be made on Taobao and Tmall via the following bookshops:

• Xinxin Xiang'ai (the publisher)
• Wangou
• Jinse
• Kuaile
• Xiangxue
• Bowenxuan

'She Brought Colour into My World': English Subtitles Available!

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I was going to subtitle a longer film with Sheng Wei in it today (it features transmigration), but since I'm incredibly tired (due to a combination of hormones, having just returned from a trip to Wales, and the prospect of a fun but packed weekend), I did a shorter (and dialogue-light) one instead. Such are the factors that govern my creative choices. The link to the original video is here, and the subtitled version can be viewed below.

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In dramas, etc, the 'Westernised woman latterly returned from abroad' vs 'traditional woman who very much stayed at home' tend to be cast as romantic rivals (and signifiers of different sets of values) for the affections of the male lead. There's been a recent trend among content creators on Bilibili and Douyin of making videos where the two archetypal women become friends/allies/lovers instead (you can see it in, for instance, some of Liu Yun Rui's more recent work). Yet another topic I would love to read multiple essays on.