Created on a website, crowd-sourced in serial, 'Beijing Comrades' is the people’s public fantasy of intimacy. The result is a classic of queer consciousness-raising erotica.
Chinese readers can't forget her; most Western readers have never met her. This year, on the 20th anniversary of her death, the NYRB edition of Chang’s 'Naked Earth' provides an opportunity for new readers to fall in love.