8/30/2023 0 Comments Fei yu ching gayBoth fictional and non-fictional narrative contribute to give us the image of a society in which homosexuality was basically accepted as one option for a male individual to satisfy his sexual desire, as long as it stayed within certain boundaries. ![]() In fact, in Ming and Qing literature we find an unprecedented amount of material concerning homosexuality. ![]() However, about half of the tales were written during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The collection includes literary and historical sources that span two thousand years, from pre-imperial times to the last century. We know nothing about its compiler except for his pseudonym: Ameng of Wu. We’ve heard that one before."The Cut Sleeve" is an anthology of fifty-one male homoerotic tales which was probably compiled during the second half of the last century. I may have lied to myself, but I would never lie to my fans.” Wu maintained that he was innocent, but swore that if he were found guilty, he would retire from the entertainment industry forever. In a tearful interview on Wednesday, he was quoted as saying, “I might make mistakes, but I don’t commit crimes. ![]() Wu, one of the country’s most highly paid entertainers, has faced a string of business failures. The company is reportedly facing financial difficulties. The funnyman could face up to five years in prison if found guilty of shady financial deals related to his ownership of an LED company. Speaking of notoriety, entertainment industry bad boy Jackie Wu (吳宗憲) has stepped out of line in ways he may not have intended, and was earlier this week charged with fraud. On This Is It, one of the panelists praised Liu Senior for his “genius” in creating a song that is so jarring that it could not but lift his son into celebrity stardom. He is now launched in the public eye in a way he probably never hoped to be, but as another Pop Stop favorite, Edison Chen (陳冠希), has discovered, notoriety is almost as good as celebrity for making it in the entertainment industry. It must be said that a cover of the song by SpongeBob SquarePants, also posted on YouTube, is actually much better than the original. On the nominally serious talk show This Is It (關鍵時刻), host Liu Pao-chieh (劉寶傑) even suggested that the singing might cause a few deaths and suggested that it should be played to dogs to see if it causes anguish in sentient beings. Worse still, the song itself seems to have lodged in the national consciousness. At first it seems merely inept, but then the very earnestness of the singing and his evident disconnect from the lyrics make it enormously humorous. Still, his performance on the music video of Nian Ni is remarkable. The Apple Daily describes him as singing “like a duck.” Nian Ni harks back to an older style of singing, and Junior’s talents, on first impression, seem rather inadequate for its demands. This has been a mixed blessing now that Liu Senior has turned his mind to giving his son a leg up the entertainment ladder. Liu is the son of the massively prolific songwriter and singer Liu Chia-chang (劉家昌), whose songs have helped establish the fame of divas such as Teresa Teng (鄧麗君) and Ouyang Feifei (歐陽菲菲), and crooners Fei Yu-ching (費玉清) and Bobbie Chen (陳昇). The music video has amassed a huge number of hits and according to reports in the United Daily News, the album that contains the single has sold more than 470,000 copies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, and shops around the country are being stripped of existing stock. Netizens have been busy this past week, watching Jeremy Liu’s (劉子千) excruciating music video for his track Nian Ni (唸你), the title of which loosely translates as “thinking of you,” and making unflattering comments about it.
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