{"id":791,"date":"2010-08-07T21:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T05:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2010-08-07T21:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T05:50:51","slug":"chorus-of-solos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"HanHan and the Central Organ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/chorus-of-solos\/hhparty-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-809\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/libidot.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hhparty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hhparty\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-809\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All summer long I have been writing my new book <em>People&#8217;s Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet\u00a0<\/em>for Intellect Books.<em>\u00a0<\/em>Excerpts and foreplay will follow on this blog until I\u00a0finally reach academic fame or downfall. In either case, I have been very fortunate to work with Carrie Yang who\u00a0has helped me\u00a0researching and scrutinizing Chinese bloggers and sexually explicit media.\u00a0The book will feature several generations of female and male\u00a0bloggers who have written about pornography or who have made their own sexually explicit galleries: Muzimei, February Girl, Hooligan Swallow, Sola Aoi, Tiger Temple, Ai wei Wei\u00a0etc,&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Han Han is no doubt the most famous of Chinese bloggers and he has made several poignant statements\u00a0about the role of sexual decadence\u00a0and\u00a0the PRC&#8217;s\u00a0Propaganda of Impotence.\u00a0 He writes about accepting global flows of culture and commerce, about overcoming impotence, and he has issued love and praise for the Japanese AV star Kaede Matsushima.\u00a0I like the fact that his\u00a0boudoir philosophy\u00a0is funny, witty and full of surprises.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie and myself\u00a0are both waiting for the arrival\u00a0of\u00a0Hanhan&#8217;s magazine\u00a0&#8220;The Party,&#8221;\u00a0which was finally launched in the beginning of July 2010.\u00a0 Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.hk\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/news.cultural-china.com\/chinaWH\/upload\/hhparty.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/news.cultural-china.com\/20100706144451.html&amp;usg=__lQDNezJbzm_gdu3fgCTCDYoEzHI=&amp;h=500&amp;w=339&amp;sz=46&amp;hl=en&amp;start=3&amp;um=1&amp;itbs=1&amp;tbnid=KEIUGShJGu0P_M:&amp;tbnh=130&amp;tbnw=88&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dhan%2Bhan%2Bmagazine%2Bcover%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1W1SKPB_en%26tbs%3Disch:1\" target=\"_blank\">the announcement  <\/a>of\u00a0the magazine which depicts\u00a0a warrior whose censored organ\u00a0is replaced with a gun.\u00a0Apparently the magazine went through several rounds of being\u00a0censored by the Party, which is the reason why the release was so delayed.\u00a0But it was rumored that 500.000 copies were sold in the first 48 hours after its launch. Hanhan uses his pen and sex appeal rather than an actual weapon to massage and tease the opposition&#8211;we all fall in love with him eventually. I plan the frame the cover and hang it on my wall when it arrives at my doorstep.\u00a0The censored warrior\u00a0will be my\u00a0guide&#8211; reminding me of my days of writing my\u00a0book about porn in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All summer long I have been writing my new book People&#8217;s Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet\u00a0for Intellect Books.\u00a0Excerpts and foreplay will follow on this blog until I\u00a0finally reach academic fame or downfall. In either case, I have been very fortunate to work with Carrie Yang who\u00a0has helped me\u00a0researching and scrutinizing Chinese bloggers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=791\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HanHan and the Central Organ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,19,44],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-proceedings","tag-activism","tag-china","tag-sex-art","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}