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The Chinabounder's response to Chinese professor and blogger Zhang Jiehai's witch hunt for the Sex In Shanghai author's identity.

Zhang Jiehai, the professor who launched the Internet manhunt for Sex in Shanghai's Chinabounder last year, has published a book detailing the affair. Danwei gives a good review of why to take a pass on this self-righteous crap.

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China has announced that it will auction off special licences that will allow tourists to hunt wolves, yaks and other wild animals - including some endangered species.

Chinese Blogger Wang Jianshuo looks on as a fight break out between a foreigner and a Chinese guy. While he's not clear on who's really at fault, he does give some very interesting remarks on the latent anti-foreigner feeling that exists in China.

Great blog.

ESWN gives his opinion on the relevance of Hong Kong's July 1st march for democracy/universal suffrage. The post goes off of the insightful commentary of Chinese blogger Charles Mok (reprinted in translation) that illustrates how the march has become a dilluted mess of social interest groups all trying to be heard.

A translation (via ESWN, of course) of a HK blogger's opinions about an Apple Daily article that reported/republished a 12-year-old girl's blog in which she violently rants about her dad abusing her. Is traditional media aware of the implications faced by taking something expecting to sit in the blogsphere and pushing it into the mainstream?

From ESWN:
"The following is a translation of a blog post by Southern Weekend reporter Fu Jianfeng (???). This is about the FoxConn-versus-China Business News case that Fu and his colleagues were working on, but never go to publish it after a ban was issued on further coverage. So this is yet another case in which an unpublishable case found itself on the Internet instead, with all sorts of delicious details that could not have been published either. This is a perfect illustration of how the Internet has transformed China ..."

Baidu reported that the number of Chinese bloggers, that is blogs written in Chinese has hit 19.87 million.

That's a 24% jump over November last year.

The average blogger updated their blog every