Citations:Versailles literature

English citations of Versailles literature

• 2021, Waiyee Yip, Why it is no longer cool to be a crazy rich Asian in China, BBC News (10 June 2021);

  Another time, she commented that her husband was "too thrifty" for choosing to wear a Zegna cashmere suit costing "only 30,000 yuan". [...]

Critics have since mocked her posts, even giving them a name: "Versailles literature". The trending term was inspired by Japanese manga The Rose Of Versailles, based on 18th-century Queen Marie Antoinette's lavish life, and for months, has sparked joke write-ups from netizens imitating her writing style.

One disgruntled netizen suggested a way to annoy a Versailles literature writer. "Just pretend that you didn't notice whatever it is they were trying to show off," he wrote on the Quora-like site Zhihu.