ABSTRACT
Boys’ Love and Girls’ Love fan fictions are popular forms of queer literature in East Asia and beyond. Through online engagements with texts, readers and writers of the genre construct new gender and sexual identities and build affective communities. This chapter examines the production and consumption of the Super Girl fan fiction in mainland China. Through textual analysis of an exemplary text, Pink Affairs, this chapter delineates how the text portrays the middle class dream, transnational imagination and queer desires, which are elements central to queer subject formation in postsocialist China. Meanwhile, seeing the text as a result of complex reader-writer interactions, this chapter explores the potential of popular literature in constructing an online queer public sphere.
