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Sex and Shanghai a hoax?Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, August 31, 2006 9:33 PM
Christopher Bodeen of the Associated Press filed a report about Sex and Shanghai, the Internet scandal du jour: the blog of a philandering English teacher in Shanghai. Excerpt: [A] person responding to an e-mail to a contact address on the site said the authors were a group of performance artists who had fabricated its content as an investigation into online vigilante behavior. If Chinabounder is not a hoax, this explanation is a wise PR move by Mr Sexpat. But if Chinabounder really is a group of performance artists, they have committed an extraordinary act of e gao (恶搞 - spoofing / satire) on the angry professor behind the campaign to out and oust the blogger. UPDATE: Shanghaiist has the latest information on the Bounder hunt. Links and Sources
There are currently 16 Comments for Sex and Shanghai a hoax?.
Comments on Sex and Shanghai a hoax?This is quite funny: A comment at http://whoischinabounder.blogspot.com/ mentions two websites: http://whoisouttingchinabounder.blogspot.com/ (which works) and http://whoisouttingthechinabounderouter.blogspot.com/ (which doesn't). Hoax or not, I found that site terminally dull. I don't believe in this report. since the writing from CB is very consistent, I still think it comes from only one person. My big question would be,if they wanted to use the blog as a study of the Chinese mob mentality, why would they make it a BLOGSPOT blog, since they were banned in China until just a few weeks ago? It's only due to that fluke - the lifting of the Blogspot ban - that this got the attention of the Chinese public. Something doesn't hold up here.... This is so not a Hoax. The guy is scared. :) I would agree it's not a hoax. I suspect the guy is nervous as hell right now. I'm not very sympathetic; he kind of asked for it. But being familiar with his site and all the time he put into it and the obvious consistency of the writing style I'd have to conclude this was not a hoax and certainly not a group effort. I don't intend to spam you with links, but nevertheless - there's a blog at http://chinabounderinchinese.blogspot.com/ which has set translating Chinabounder's posts into Chinese as it's goal. If it does turn out to be a hoax, I just want everyone to know I called it first: www.princeroy.org/?p=403#comment-1596. It's obviously not a hoax, despite what anyone "called." It's likely disinformation being spread by Chinabounder. If it really were a hoax the blog would still be up right now and posts would continue. The events that have unfolded are consistent with someone on the run or trying to lay low while spreading disinformation. Chinabounder actually being "a bunch of performing artists" that included a Chinese male?! Extraordinarily unlikely that someone would be into self-race/gender hating and self-deprecation. The chasers must have gotten close. Maybe his name really is XXXXX XXXXX or XXXXX or whatever. [EDITOR'S NOTE (JG): Names changed to XXXs] EDITOR'S NOTE (JG): This comment was trying to say the Chinabounder is reaping what he sowed, but it was written in filthy, grammatically incorrect English so has been paraphrased. When I first read that Chinabounder was supposed to be some sort of artistic activity I thought it made sense. I had been discussing performance art a few days back so in a way I was in the subject. Also – why would the creator(s) close the blog, and what would they do, if the Blogger Beta ‘blog is open to invited readers only’ function hadn’t been introduced earlier this month? Besides, if you were an artist who’s project got out of hand, why not keep the blog opened and write an apology/project description in your last post? Anyway, if I’m not wrong, the professor is said to have discovered the IPs from which Chinabounder was supposed to update his log. Could someone explain how? I suppose he’d have to contact Blogger.com. it wasn't a hoax. two reasons: 1. why hoax with a website that was until very recently banned in China? talk about misjudging the audience; you would have to find them first. 2. the innane and tedious postings are a perfect example of a self absorbed ego-heavy blog. god knows china is full of them. I can't belive that a group of individuals with aspirations to be artists could ever be that mundane, either by accident or by design. the bounder is on the run. things got a little too hot. his job and perhaps his legal status was at risk. should he keep blogging just to prove a point. no he accepts defeat, licks his wounds and gets on with life. http://news.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=news&MsgID=305476 The AP report is dissected. While I believe the dissection is rather radical, I have to say the AP reported is very uncritical, regarding the claim of hoax and also the identity of 'chinabounderess'. For any sane reader chinabounderess is very likely not what he/she claims to be. just looked at chinaboundress. as the most sexual thing she appears to have done so far is to have eye contact with a guy in Starbucks, I think she can be dismissed as a johnny come lately bandwagon jumper. 我觉得一些外国人确实脑子有问题 I am sorry I did not have the opportunity to read this much discussed Blog before its removal. Apparently, from what I can read, it MAY have been a hoax with intents unknown. Perhaps this was not a hoax. Regardless, it has apparently opened the floodgates of discussion on culture, racism, sexuality in China, etc. For these reasons only, it may be a good thing.
The Chinese male must understand their days as “The King, Emperor”, “Ruler of the Roost”, etc. are over in China. Chinese women are sexually liberated, a growing fixture in the workplace and not a second class sex to be kept at home when the man feels like playing with her. They have feelings, needs, choices and free to act on them.
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