In the late 1980s, Chinese-language contributions to the internet were primarily made by overseas Chinese scholars publishing research papers, overseas students, or general Chinese diaspora sending emails or newsletters, or making posts onto small forums onto the internet.
[6] A website that was developed with the intention of fostering more experimental and artistic writing was Black and Blue (Heilan), which mostly functions as a series of forum posts.
[3][7] Some platforms have been devoted to poetry forums, such as Chinapoet and Poemlife, with users exchanging brief critiques and comments on each other's posts.
For this reason, the works produced on these literature platforms are disproportionately written to appeal to readers of popular genres, such as fantasy.
An example of a writer of online fiction who has received a lot compensation through his salary as well as royalties from adaptations of his works is Tang Jia San Shao, who has been known to earn millions of dollars each year.
With so much content being created under this model, many companies have sought to profit off of it and began the commercialization of online literature.
Writers receive many kinds of feedback on the content they publish, including: view count, comments, rating of chapters, monetary gifts from readers, and recommendation tickets.
This can benefit writers as it can increase their visibility on the platform, and is often done in support of a particular author so that their work can be high ranking on the website.
This leads to many writers apologizing to their fanbase for missing an update or even producing multiple endings to satisfy both themselves as well as their audience.
Webnovel primarily utilizes machine translation, and many readers complain that it isn't very good, but there is a rise is original works written in English and other languages being published to the platform, which may contribute to its global appeal.
Coiling Dragon by I Eat Tomatoes: This is a very long webnovel that focuses on the journey of Linley of the Baruch clan once famous for its Dragonblood warriors.
I Shall Seal the Heavens by Er Gen Way of Choices by Mao Ni Lord of (the) Mysteries by Cuttlefish that Loves Diving/Yuan Ye Douluo Dalu (aka Soul Land) by Tang Jia San Shao Swallowed star by I Eat Tomatoes While not all of the following works are strictly of the danmei genre, here are a few works that include danmei content: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xia Thousand Autumns by Meng Xi Shi Guardian by Priest MouMou (aka A Certain Someone) by Mu Su Li Heaven Official's Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Some famous webseries adaptations include: In the early 2010s Shengda Literature (aka Shanda Literature) struggled to fight the pirating of material from their platforms and has attempted to enforce copyrights on its content, but ultimately it remains difficult to regulate a user-generated economy within the internet.
Whenever a detection avoidance technique is discovered by a moderator the program is updated to identify this, and so the writer must revise their work and attempt to republish again.
[3][27][28] As platforms like Webnovel continue to cater to foreign audiences, Chinese online literature has the opportunity to reach many.