From Xinhua News Agency (link):
To blog or not to blog Is that a question for you?
Despite a huge influx of participants, the blogosphere in China is experiencing a small “counter-current” of quitters, spearheaded by celebrity bloggers.
In early March, Bai Ye, a renowned literary critic, closed his blog on Sina.com.cn after days of blog-to-blog argument with a lionized young writer.
“I don’t know how to react to unseemly and irrational words from the writer and his idolaters,” Bai wrote in his last entry on March 5.
The spat was kindled by one of his logs that lambasted the “post-1980 generation” of young writers and their works. Han Han, one of those writers, responded with a diatribe.
Han fired back in his blog that Bai had “no ingenuity or talent” and was “a pedantic diehard.” Touting his own stories as “rare literature in China,” the writer in his 20s used vulgarities in his log, which sparked another round of “blog quarrel” between the two.
Then came the end of Bai’s blog.
See also – ” Online Spat Between Bai Ye and Han Han” by News Guangdong
