BEIJING: When outspoken professor Qiao Mu posted his resignation letter on a popular Chinese messaging app, sympathetic readers tapped their phone screens to send him money, leaving him with a 20,000 yuan (RM12,716) payday.
China’s widely-used applications have given writers like Qiao an outlet to self-publish and make money – as long as their words respect the boundaries set by online censors inside the country’s “Great Firewall”.
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