‘Keep the fantasy within a circle’: Kai Wang and the paradoxical practices of Chinese real person slash fans

Ming Zhang

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Real Person Slash Fan Fiction (RPS) is a subset of fan-generated literature featuring male-male romantic and/or erotic relationships between two real people such as celebrities, actors, and athlete...

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