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More than 100 million views on Bilibili, tens of thousands of live comments — China's Gen Z is rediscovering a 40-year-old wuxia classic. What makes the ...
A foreigner shares his unexpected immersion into Chinese cultivation novels—how they hooked him, what they reveal about Chinese culture, and why millions of Chinese readers can't ...
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