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Witchhunt for a blogger

An English blogger in Shanghai might have blogged himself into trouble. This person, who blogs here under the name Chinabounder, has had a blog for a couple of months already. But because he hosted it at blogspot, it was unavailable without a proxy until a few weeks ago (China unblocked blogspot.com accounts a few weeks ago). Therefore only a couple of people were following his blog through a proxy server on the mainland.

Chinabounder is an English teacher who likes to seduce former female students, and describes his sexual encounters quite graphically. He is a player, managing several girlfriends at the same time, and pretending to love all of them, but really doing it just for the thrill. This upset a lot of people, both foreigners and Chinese, but to make things worse he is now also including his personal political opinions in his blog. And these do not fit with the world view that most Chinese have, causing several people to start an online witchhunt for him.

The first one was a Chinese guy who set up whoischinabounder.blogspot.com. Lots of people left comments there with hints on who he could be, based on the descriptions in his blog. But things are now getting a bit out of hand, because Zhang Jiehai, a professor of psychology in the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences wrote a blog post about Chinabounder and is asking the ‘Chinese people’ to ‘find this foreign trash until we kick him out of China’. This blog post is widely circulating on the internet, and an EastSouthWestNorth provides a translation of the article. I hope for Chinabounder that he was smart enough not to provide real details about himself, or at least to start feeding the crowds with false information. But once the internet is trying to find you it will be very difficult to escape.

To be continued, I am sure.

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  1. Now if you are in a foreign country you’d better show some respect for the people and the culture there, especially when you are staying to make money. As a “China man” I have no sympathy at all for that scoundrel at all. Wish him be caught soon!

  2. I just hope the whole thing will not become a national campaign against “white man” and their Chinese partners. There is enough animus in this country against western-Chinese marriage/relationship (normally western man and Chinese girl of course). Wish people will be rational enough to separate the two thing. Disliking China and publishing subjectively negative comments about Chinese people is one thing, affair between a white man and his Chinese girl-friends is another. The later can happen everyday everywhere with anybody and I believe it’s purely private. I smell some misguided anger around it…

  3. I read the responses, written in Chinese, posted on this Englishman’s blog. I have to say most of them supported what he wrote (the latest entry response to the professor’s angry outburst). Well I have to say what these Chinese responses made sense. Perhaps I think the same way as they do?

    But what I do want to comment is, there are so many ‘sick blog’ going on in China with photos of girls exposing themselves begging for popularity, we have to start thinking, what is the different between written words or photos? Why photos of nude or semi-nude females become hot and written words became something to argue about? Chinese in China have to start thinking about what is happening to their society. Actually what is internet doing to thier society (and the world to be exact)?

    This incident has a lot more hidden implications. I have had some private mails exchanges with someone before. This is moving towards ‘tip of the iceberg’. To really understand one has to ‘really, really, really’ understand the history of China, the Chinese people, the cultures, the society. And most of all, one has to be Chinese. Cultures and the place/country where one grows up influenced the way we think and rationalize.

    As an Oversea Chinese 3rd generation removed, live in many major western countries (total number of years) longer than the country I was born, yet I cannot shake the burden born as a Chinese. The cultues, the plight of the Chines, they stay with me.

    When I lived in the US, I heard the expression given to ABC (American Born Chinese) … banana. Yellow outside, white inside. It is an expression we might want to spend more time think deeper.

  4. Are you kidding me? Why on earth would anyone care about this, especially someone like a professor of psychology at a University. That in itself just goes to show you that he does not understand the very subject he is teaching.

    Why would you even care, he is being a jerk to women – does it matter that they are Chinese? Anyone that may have taught English in Japan knows that this happens all the time there with ‘former studnets.’ Perhaps China just needs to grow up and stop trying to control the thoughts of people particularly when those people are clearly trying to stir up controversy. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, chinabounder, or blogger, or chinagirl-seduction, whatever he is – clearly has the attention of China, and that is terribly sad.

  5. I believe in live and let live, and I totally disagree with a witchhunt. But I am afraid that because of this blog, whether it is real or not, a whole ‘anti-foreigner with Chinese partner’ mood will start to grow in China. If the comments on professor Zhang’s blog are an indication of what the average online Chinese thinks about foreigners, I am shocked. This is certainly not what I have experienced myself so far, and I hope it won’t change.

  6. While I agree that a witchhunt is not wise, I do believe there is something seriously mentally wrong with this chinablogger. Unfortunately, there are many like him. I think China needs to hire more foreigners who have a desire to teach and a background in education/Asian studies, not just any old Joe no-name foreigner off the street.

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