Words of the Week: Trust Han Han, Avoid Brain Damage
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Han Han
Han Han: The Problem With Me
Shanghai-born blogger, author, director, singer, restaurateur, and race car driver Han Han...
Han Han: This Generation
Helen Gao introduces the newly released English version of Han Han’s book, “This Generation”. At Los Angeles Review of Books: Han’s latest book (and first in English), This Generation: Dispatches from China’s...
Volunteers Flocking to Quake Zone Asked to Turn Back
Since Saturday morning, when a 6.6Mw earthquake struck near Sichuan’s Ya’an city, thousands of volunteers from students and white-collar workers to Tibetan monks have descended on the affected area to offer...
Southern Weekly Censorship Faceoff Continues (Updated)
The heavy-handed rewriting of the Southern Weekly newspaper’s traditional New Year greeting has triggered a staff strike, a barrage of letters and petitions, and an upwelling of popular support both on- and offline. In the...
A Good Year for Chinese-English Translation
At Paper Republic, Nicky Harman celebrates a good year for Chinese-to-English translations, listing twenty books published—mostly—in 2012. OK, I’ve cheated a bit – three of the publications below are poetry, and two others come...
Han Han: ‘Why Aren’t You Grateful?’
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson critiques a new book of translated essays by Han Han, This Generation: Dispatches from China’s Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver), and looks at the limits of his...
Han Han Denounces Violent Anti-Japanese Protests
As anti-Japanese protests continue to heat up in China, well-known Chinese blogger Han Han took to Weibo to denounce violent acts such as smashing Japanese-made cars. Liz Carter and David Wertime at Tea Leaf Nation summarize...
The Most Famous Blogger You’ve Never Heard Of
In the Atlantic, Jeffrey Wasserstrom looks at the work of Han Han and asks why he isn’t a household name in the West, despite being perhaps the world’s most popular blogger: Han Han is a big deal in China — and...
Netizen Voices: In Defense of Han Han’s Potty Mouth
Update: New comment by sam025 added at the bottom. Irony is lost on Global Times Chief Editor Hu...
Han Han: Life as I See It
Han Han posted this essay on his blog June 20. The images are from an image file version of the...
Han Han: The Liberation of Shifang
China’s rascal literatus Han Han has tackled the violent crackdown on unarmed protesters in...
Has China’s Young Jedi Joined the Dark Side?
Han Han, the most famous blogger in China, recently sealed a deal with massive Chinese Internet company Tencent and founded an e-journal, One. This is his third attempt at creating a journal. Compared with his previous work,...
Sina Weibo “User Contracts” Go Live
The New York Times reports that Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo has rolled out “user contracts” with a points-based system to better facilitate the monitoring and punishment of inappropriate comments by its 300...
Sensitive Words: Show-Off Girl and More
As of May 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user”...
Flame War: Novelist vs Fraud Buster
Danwei’s Joel Martinson chronicles the war of words between author-blogger-racing driver Han Han and merciless scientific fraud slayer Fang Zhouzi. Battle lines have been drawn, with writers, publishers, cartoonists and...
Han Han: My 2011 (Updated)
ChinaHush has translated an essay by race car driver and superstar blogger Han Han in which he reflects on his past year and a transformation in his writing: After a long time of thinking, I gradually began to feel that the good...
Writers Sue Apple for Copyright Violation
A group of writers including Han Han and Murong Xuecun is suing Apple in the latest of a string of legal battles over ebook piracy. The company is accused of having failed to block the sale of unauthorised ebook apps, and of...
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