Chinese GL

Pre-orders are currently open for The World Knows (全世界都知道, pinyin: quan shijie dou zhidao) by Yu Shuang (鱼霜), serialised online as The Whole World Knows She Loves Me (全世界都知道她爱我, pinyin: quan shijie dou zhidao ta ai wo). This is a contemporary romance featuring a relationship between an artist and a professional pianist. Pre-orders can be made via the following bookshops:

• Kuwei (the publisher)
  
• Jinse
  
• Kuaile
  
• Wangou
  
• Xinshijiao

The web version of the novel can be read here on JJWXC.

Pre-orders are also open for What Era Do You Think This Is (都什么年代了啊, pinyin: dou shenme niandai le a) by Qi Xiao Huang Shu (七小皇叔). The publisher-provided English title for this was Kissing a Gardenia, but that seems to have been scrapped now. This is also a contemporary romance, set in baihe voice acting circles. Pre-orders can be made via the following bookshops:

• Fengrusong
  
• Hanlin
  
• Kuaile
  
• Kuaile (extra merch)
  
• Xinshijiao
  
• Xinshijiao (extra merch)

The web version of the novel can be read here on Changpei.

I'm painfully aware that (1) this comm really needs a resource post on baihe audio dramas and (2) I really don't know enough about audio dramas to be the person to write it. If anyone wants to write such a post, please please please go ahead and do it! You'll have my eternal gratitude.

Fortuitously though, Fanjiao — the specialist platform for baihe audio content, itself a spin-off from the lesbian dating app The L (formerly Rela) — celebrated its fifth anniversary a few weeks ago, with a long video featuring 49 baihe voice actresses, so I've decided to shamelessly glom on to it and provide an introduction of sorts to audio dramas via sketching out the profiles of each VA featured and listing their major works. The list is set out below in more or less alphabetical order based on pinyin. The focus will be mostly on the Fanjiao-hosted dramas which each VA has participated in, but I will provide details of their voice work on other platforms and media where I'm aware of them.



The original video can be viewed on the Fanjiao Weibo account here. For ease of embedding, I've re-uploaded it to my YouTube account. There are currently no English subtitles because I, er, already have a very large backlog of things to translate, but if anyone is interested in trying their hand at subtitling it, you're very welcome to do so, and I'm happy to provide support!

( VAs A to F )

( VAs G to P )

( VAs Q to X )

( VAs Y to Z )

I previously made an excessively long Twitter thread on this topic with less textual detail but with voice clips and images, which you can read here.