Year Hare Affair

Year Hare Affair is a Chinese webcomic and media franchise by Lin Chao, who first published under the pen name Niguang Feixing. The comic uses anthropomorphic animals as an allegory for nations and sovereign states, retelling twentieth and twenty-first century political, military and diplomatic events, with China shown as a white hare that the series portrays as peaceful and intelligent. It was inspired by a lengthy post on a military web forum. Lin Chao created an animated adaptation that launched in 2015 and had its seventh season in 2025, and a free-to-play strategy role-playing game based on the webcomic was released on iOS and Android on 15 July 2015. The series conveys patriotic themes through metaphor and has drawn criticism for its historical framing and its portrayal of other countries, while defenders call it satire and entertainment. Hare is now used as internet slang for China.