Days before the New Year’s Day, Wei Mengyu, an 18-year-old English major at Northeast Normal University in Jilin province, couldn’t wait to send a message out to her WeChat group. It was not a New Year’s greeting, but an invitation to join her at a comic convention in Changchun on the New Year’s Day. It was an event she’d been anticipating for a long time; a *bash she could enjoy with other comic fans.