Hounded by internet vigilantes, a blogging westerner Lothario is pouring scorn on the idea of Chinese justice, says gary jones |
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Last August, China's internet vigilantes launched a cyberspace manhunt for the 'Chinabounder', a self-styled western Lothario who had sparked fury among the men of Shanghai by boasting of his many and varied carnal encounters with Chinese women on his blog, 'Sex and Shanghai'.
A massive backlash followed, characterised by threats of murder and castration from those claiming he had blackened China's good name. The anonymous rake - thought to be a thirtysomething teacher of English in China's most prosperous city - went into hiding and the internet calmed across the Middle Kingdom. National pride was restored and the bumptious foreigner was effectively made impotent.
Now, he has suddenly thrown himself back
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| A western man has sex with consenting adults and there's chaos – a girl is thrown to her death and nobody cares |
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into the fray, all guns blazing. With a new posting at chinabounder.blogspot.com, dated February 2, he has taken on not just the critics who drove him into silence - "internet idiots so concerned about China's honour and dignity" - but, it seems, the entire Chinese nation.
"Shame on the citizens of China!" he writes. "Your children are dying and your silence is complicit in their death."
Chinabounder's 1,800-word posting is entitled 'A New Girl' and begins with the description of a vivacious and independently- minded Chinese girl. One assumes he is going to boast of another conquest. Then he digs the knife in. For this is his account - part fact, part drama - of a girl who never made it into her teens as she was killed by her teacher.
Last September, 11-year-old Zhang Yaoyi (left), a student at No 12 Middle School in Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, muttered something to her teacher Li Hengyi. She was seated at the front row in class. In a fury, he turned on her and smashed her head against the desk. 
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