Sunday, February 4th, 2007...8:17 pm
Is Chinabounder’s “Sex and Shanghai” back?!
Remember the "Sex and Shanghai" blog written by Chinabounder about his sexual adventures in Shanghai that was forced to close down and hide out due to a collaborative hunt by the China netizens? a story covered by almost all the big China blogs and the very keen international media? If you don’t, take a re-read of the "China : Sex, Pride and a bit about Israel" summary and the "The immoral foreign blogger" ESWN where the whole unbelievable story began.
Some said it was a hoax, some said it was for real, some were big fans, some were utterly upset, some couldn’t care less. Those who joined the story too late didn’t have a chance to really read what it was about before it closed, but now - it seemed that the blog re-opened two days ago. The blog has a new post titled "a new girl" with a most emotional reply to the Chinese netizens, referring to a story about an 11 years old girl killed by a teacher and another 9 years old girl beaten to death by another teacher (link might be dead, found through News from China):
"Her name was Zhang Yaoyi. She was 11. She was a pupil in a school in China’s central Hunan province. […]
And then the lunacy that lurks beneath the male skin slithers to the surface. He smashes her head against the desktop several times, hard, brutal; she falls to the floor. He kicks her, thick, heavy blows from his feet into her stomach, her ribcage. He jumps on her, kicks her head. Already she’s covered in blood and barely conscious. He grabs an iron bar that’s used to pull open the high windows and beats her with it, beats her, smashes her, bloody, murderous, brutal. […]
And where were all you frothing lunatics then? Where were the witchhunts then? Where was the anger and the outrage? Where were the frenzied press reports? Where were the blog sites calling for this guy’s head?
One Western man has sex with a bunch of women. Women who are adults, who consent freely, and who enjoy it thoroughly. He writes about it, throws in a few run-of-the-mill opinions. Behavior nothing special. Thoughts little new. Chaos. Millions of madmen fussing and strutting and firing off absurd emails. […]
Where were you brave citizens of China then? Where was the anger? Where was the press, so like dogs baying for Chinabounder? The outcry? The mass of Internet idiots so concerned about China’s honor and dignity? They offered silence and remain silent. Not a word, not a sigh, not a shrug of the shoulder, not even a raised eyebrow. […]
Shame on the citizens of China! Your children are dying and your silence is complicit in their death."
The guy’s got balls, I’ll grant him that. I can sense trouble. Brace yourselves, here comes another one…
… snore …
If there’s anything we need bracing for, it’s more bloggers blogging about bloggers.
George Owell said in his “down & out in Paris & london” “we are working people. where was the sense to waste our precious sleeping time over a murder?” If everyone is struggling for their daily bread, who care a stranger’s dying miles away?
Kindly note that the girl was not mentally ill, the teacher was diagnosed mental disorders, so you should really re-read either the original news or Chinabounder’s narration again and change it to “a story about an 11 years old girl killed by a mentally ill teacher”
Thanks for letting me know…