Massive collectively-written Chinese gangster fiction

Over at the excellent Virtual China blog, my Institute for the Future colleague Lyn Jeffery posts about a massive Chinese BBS forum where participants are collaboratively writing a story called "My Seven Years in World of Gangsters." So far, there are more than 21,000 comments that make up the story. It's being translated at EastSouthWestNorth. From Lyn's post:

The post didn't start out as a collective project, or necessarily even as fiction at all. But somewhere along the line other commentators jumped in to continue or augment the story line. The end of the ESWN translation: "The translator does not know how long the story goes on because he has not made it past even a fraction of the comments..."

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