A week in Shanghai with James Farrer, AKA Dr. Sex, is always a lively one, and this week while researching our book we hit up several clubs, restaurants, and bars in town
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A conversation with blogger Mikkitaro on Shanghai's notorious "Baby"
Read MoreSex in China: The Times They Are a Changin'
I was thinking about interviewing my colleague James Farrer about this recent conference held in Beijing on sexuality in China, but Devin beat me to the punch. This interview is jacked from Devin's excellent website on global policy innovations:
Read MoreBattle of the Sexes: Shanghai Baby vs. Foreign Babes in Beijing
It recently came to my attention that Wei Hui's novel Shanghai Baby has been made into a film, starring Bai Ling as "Coco", the novel's protagonist. Meanwhile, Rachel Dewoskin has turned her own non-fictional account of her stint as an actress in a 1990s popular Chinese TV series, Foreign Babes in Beijing into a film as well. Interesting that both stories are being produced as films around the same time and that they both deal with female sexuality in China during the same era. In one, Chinese women appear seductive, Western men are virile while Chinese men are weak. In the other, Western women are attracted to virile, artsy Chinese men. What a telling juxtaposition! I'll get back to this theme at the end of this blog, but first, for those of you unfamiliar, here's a rundown of both stories.
Read MoreMore Thoughts on Sex and Shanghai
There's something macabre about this online character, China Bounder. While I appreciate his blog as a kind of "Kinsey report" of the sexualized environment of today's Shanghai, something is eerily disturbing about his particular line of thinking. Certainly I'm not a trained psychoanalyst, but in mulling over his case last night while tossing and turning in the wee hours, I came up with the following observations.
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He's back. The man who inspired a witchhunt last August for his controversial blogsite about shagging in Shanghai. We know him as China Bounder. If you believe his story, he is a British Caucasian in his 30s and a former (if not current) English teacher in Shanghai. If you're somewhat more susceptible to rumors and innuendo, he is in fact a team of clever, mischievous blogsters making it up as they go along (or maybe even a team of monkeys relentlessly pounding on the keyboard?). I for one don't believe that tripe for a minute. In my humble, unenlightened opinion, this guy is real, and so are his stories.
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