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5 September 2006 19:28China's internet vigilantes target British ex-pat cad
By Clifford Coonan
Published: 04 September 2006
Chinabounder, an anonymous British expat and self-confessed wastrel in his early 30s, likes to boast on his weblog of his sexual conquests of Chinese women, including some of his students. This has so outraged Shanghai's web citizens that they have resolved to track him down and "kick the foreign trash out of China".
In racy language suggesting a Terry-Thomas-like rogue cutting a dash in the seedy bars of Shanghai, Chinabounder describes seducing a different girl every night of the week.
The postings are also critical of Chinese male sexual prowess and contain occasional snipes at Chairman Mao Tse-tung's womanising and the frustrations of Chinese housewives.
The collection of juvenile if provocative musings on sexual mores in contemporary China may even be a hoax cooked up by artists to gauge the reaction in China to such unsavoury comments from a foreigner.
Access to his "Sex and Shanghai" blog - which attracted millions of readers - is currently denied as the author hides from a wave of contempt. Cyber-vigilantes, furious at his claimed seductions of married women and teenagers, have threatened him with a beating if they track him down and some comments are couched in dangerously xenophobic language.
Shanghai, China's biggest city, has tens of thousands of foreigners, many of them students and language teachers. Intimate relationships between locals and foreigners have grown more common - Mick Jagger alluded to this before the Rolling Stones' Shanghai show in March when he said a ban on certain songs in their repertoire was designed to protect expatriate bankers and their Chinese girlfriends. There are rarely reports of racial tension.But some reactions to Chinabounder have been furious.Zhang Jiehai, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, describes the blogger as a "piece of garbage" and "an immoral foreigner". "Netizens and compatriots, if you are a Chinese man with guts and if you respect Chinese women, please join this 'internet hunt for the immoral foreigner'," he wrote. Other postings have called for Chinabounder's head and described his girlfriends as "national scum".
Jeremy Goldkorn, the publisher of the influential Danwei website, believes that most people have been measured in their response.
"A lot of the comments about Chinabounder have been fairly moderate - people saying how Chinese men are far worse than Chinabounder, for example, or pointing out that there was no question of rape or anything like that," he said. And there have even been imitators. An overseas-born ethnic Chinese woman has set up a site, ABC Chick in Shanghai, describes herself as Chinabounderess and defends Chinabounder. She then goes on to describe her own flirtations in Shanghai.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1359798.ece
Foreigner’s blog sparks firestorm in ChinaBy Geoff Dyer in Shanghai
Published: September 1 2006 12:34 | Last updated: September 1 2006 12:34
An anonymous blog by a British teacher in Shanghai detailing his alleged sexual exploits with Chinese women has provoked fury among locals and sparked the latest campaign by internet vigilantes in China – even though the blog could actually be a hoax.
The Sex and Shanghai website, which has now been closed down, describes in occasionally lurid terms the conquests of the author who calls himself “Chinabounder” and at times makes disparaging remarks about Chinese men and women.
The furor over the blog spiralled this week after a Shanghai academic launched an internet campaign with heavy racial overtones to have the author deported from China.
“We must find this foreign trash and kick him out of China,” wrote Zhang Jiehai, a psychology professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in a weblog titled “The Hunt for the Immoral Foreigner”.
The veracity of the sex blog is unclear. In response to an e-mail to the internet address on the Chinabounder site, a message said the content had all been invented and authored by a group of writers from several countries including China. The real identity or identities is still unknown.
Shanghai has a large and fast-growing population of expatriates who rarely report instances of racial tension, although the city witnessed a large anti-Japanese demonstration last year.
Yet the Chinabounder blog has touched a raw nerve. Prof Zhang’s own website has been inundated with messages, mostly in support, since he denounced Sex and Shanghai.
“Let’s sweep the white trash out of the country,” wrote one internet user, while another said: “We should expose him to the public so we can punish him and set an example for other foreigners.”
Others respondents were more reflective. “A fly does not eat a cracked egg,” wrote one. “We should examine ourselves first.”
Before Sex and Shanghai was closed down two days ago “Chinabounder” responded to the criticism, saying he was not proud of some of his comments about former girlfriends but calling Prof Zhang a “bigot and a parasite”.
Blogs detailing sexual exploits have provoked firestorms in a number of countries in recent years and led campaigns to unmask the author. Shanghai now has a “Who is Chinabounder?” website.
But the uproar over Sex and Shanghai also follows several recent ferocious internet witchhunts in China, with the internet providing a rare public forum for expressing passionate opinion.
Earlier this year, a man from Hebei province tried to discover the identity about a male student he believed was having an affair with his wife by posting details on the internet. The student, who denied the affair, was later inundated with hate-mail. A similar internet frenzy was caused after pictures appeared on the web which appeared to show a woman in high heels stomping on a cat.
Zhang Youde, head of the Sociology Department at East China University of Politics and Law, said it was natural for people to react strongly if they were so offended by a blog, but warned against taking the campaign too far. “If the foreigner is successfully identified, it must be handled following the law,” he said.
After helping whip up the storm in recent days, Prof Zhang was taking a more conciliatory tone at his Shanghai office on Friday. His comments were not a nationalist attack on the anonymous blogger, he said, but an attempt to get his Chinese readers to think about the sense of inferiority they sometimes feel.
“The most important goal was to teach Chinese to understand their self-pity,” he said.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/193c98f0-39ab-11db-90bb-0000779e2340.html
