Han Han went missing
Posted by Reva at 5/10/2010 5:00 PM 
Categories: China the next superpower
Tags: censorship Han Han Chinese censorship harmonized
Categories: China the next superpower
Tags: censorship Han Han Chinese censorship harmonized
Had a fright last week when Handsome Boy, a Chinese student at the University of Minnesota, emailed me that Han Han's blog had been blocked by the Chinese government. I wasn't surprised; I've been expecting this to happen. So, I went to www.chinadigitaltimes.net and followed a link to Han Han's blog posts in the Chinese host, sina.com and there he was. I emailed Handsome Boy. He was able to find Han Han, too, but some of Han Han's blog posts had disappeared.
So, the good-looking intellectual and race car driver is still blogging. Wonderful!
It's amazing that he's been able to go on as long as he has with his criticisms of the government . I've attributed it to the improvement of China's government, a loosening up, a sanctioned openness and realization that the populace has been awakened and must be appeased.
Maybe I'm overly optimistic; I sure sound naïve.
Maybe Handsome Boy is right: Han Han has a relationship with someone in the government who protects him.
We don't know. But we keep reading the Han Han - Handsome Boy reads the original Chinese and I read a translation - for the news that otherwise doesn't get reported in China.
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