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 All good scandals come to an end.

Can’t remember what this is about? Check “China : Sex, Pride and a bit about Israel” and “Is Chinabounder’s Sex and Shanghai back?!” (and maybe a lecture I gave with his casestudy on “Blogging Ethics - Anonymity Freedom of Speech vs. the Dark Side”).

Sex and Shanghai’s Chinabounder (流氓外教) story was a great tale to tell about the mysteries of Chinese netizens behavior and expat-local sensitivities, but now – finally – we can get most of what happened with Chinabounder, allegedly David Marriott, coming out with a new book – “Fault Lines on the Face of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great” :S

Here’s from the British Guardian’s “China sex blogger reveals his identity” :

Looking back on the furore that his online accounts of sexual adventure in Shanghai had sparked among conservative Chinese, he said: "Chinese men were deeply offended by the blog, and I do understand why. In history, Chinese men have suffered greatly at the hands of foreign armies and now, philosophically, they feel they are being attacked in the bedroom. They see this as the battle for the very women they fought wars to protect." […]

More than 17,000 people visited Marriott’s blog in the wake of professor Zhang’s campaign two years ago, but the book and its reaction have so far generated far less traffic.

Marriott, who visited Japan to secure his book deal before moving on to a secret location, said the confusion surrounding his identity at the height of the campaign to denounce him "gave me excellent cover".

He insisted his decision to leave China was connected to his book deal and "differences between me the Shanghai police - a story best left to a later time". The self-confessed Casanova said he had written his sexlog as a "mental purge and colonic for my sexual adventures" and in an attempt to secure his "fifteen minutes of fame".

"Although it seemed cowardly at the time, not revealing who I was, those Chinese men who wished to protect women did not realise that the women I wrote about would have been torn to pieces by those very same Chinese men if their names had been revealed at that time along with mine," he said.

Why did he do this? UK’s Telegraph has some answers :

The self-confessed Casanova also said he had written his sexlog as a "mental purge and colonic for my sexual adventures" and in an attempt to secure his "fifteen minutes of fame".

Check out Danwei’s “Chinabounder is back, with a name and a book” comment section. If you can read Chinese, go visit Sohu.