Datang Chinese is a free online novel-reading website offering visitors access to a broad catalogue of fiction. Its collection is organized into genres including fantasy and cultivation, time travel and rebirth, urban fiction, military and historical stories, online gaming, science fiction, supernatural fiction, romance, and other categories. Readers can browse popular titles, completed-novel recommendations, newly added books, recent updates, and daily trending searches. The site also provides reading-history and member-bookshelf features, alongside account registration and login options. It describes its service as allowing novels to be read and downloaded for free, without pop-up windows or advertisements.

Datang Chinese states that its displayed material comes from publicly accessible online pages and is automatically formatted by its crawler. It says the crawler follows robots.txt rules and does not alter the underlying content or endorse its viewpoints. Website owners can submit publicly accessible URLs for crawling, while users can report material for removal through the site’s feedback function.