If anyone thought the English teacher bashing in Korea recently was bad it is nothing compared to what is going in China. The Peking Duck reports about an internet man hunt currently under way in China to uncover the owner of this blog Sex in Shanghai who is an English teacher who had the audacity to blog about his sexual exploits with his students.

For months over at the China Blog List, I noticed that one blog always seemed to get good play, perhaps because of its curiosity-inducing name, Sex and Shanghai, and its subtitle, "Western scoundrel in Shanghai tells all." I visted the site once, and that was more than enough. The last thing I need to do with my time is read an expat's sex diary in which he describes in occasionally graphic detail his sexploitation of willing Chinese girls, many his former students. (The writing is excellent and the blogger offers some keen insights into the Chinese psyche, but all of that gets lost in the unending stream of pornographic reminiscences.)

China is still a conservative country, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that as this blog gained traction it would also gain controversy. So I read with great interest an account over at ESWN of how the Shanghai sex blog has been denounced by a Chinese blogger who's also a psychology professor, leading to one of those famous Internet-generated "manhunts," like the search for the deranged stiletto-heeled kitty killer.

Doesn't this all sound familiar?

Anyway the translated portion of the said Chinese blog post announcing the man hunt can be read here. The site owner now being hunted down had this to say in response to the man hunt. What I found amusing in the comments sections in between all the comments wishing him death were the other comments bashing America and of course Korea. This guy is not even an American he is British and yet this has opened another forum to bash America. I'm sure this is only going to get more interesting.


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