Comments on: Immoral Foreign Blogger (No, not me)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:48:00 +0000

Misconceptions among many Chinese readers about Chinabounder are spreading like fire because of that Shanghai professor’s inflammatory blog post. Actually, he doesn’t sleep with current students, and it’s usually his former students who initiate contact after they take his class (he gives them his email address at the end of a course). He’s a bad guy, but I’m not sure about predatory.

As an aside, he doesn’t use his lovers’ real names, but it’s still true that Chinese people pick wacky names.

By: Roopie

Roopie — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:47:00 +0000

Thing I worry about it is that the Chinese (government, people, whatever) are going to overreact and think that all male non-Chinese teachers in China are acting the same way. This could get very serious, very quickly.

By: Stuart Benedict

Stuart Benedict — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:02:00 +0000

I’ve thought that China Bounder was pretty despicable for quite some time now. It looks like he might be reaping the negative consequences of his thoughtless actions. Personally, I think he’s wrong in every way. Technically, though, he only slept with former students which isn’t as bad except for the fact that he seems to be using his classes to scope out new conquests. This practice is creepy at best and preditory at worst.

Anonymous, are you implying that in the West it’s okay for teachers to have relationships with students? Westerners look down on this practice just as much as anybody. In fact, we put people in jail for it. Also, you seem to have the opinion (correct me if I’m wrong) that non-Chinese people (i.e. “loawai”, foreigners, westerners, whatever) are unable to control themselves. You shouldn’t lump every non-Chinese person into that category because it isn’t the case.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0000

individual freedom and stable society are often conflict.

agree with that teacher should not have relationship with students. But now a days, world is changed to western. Old Chinese manner is taken by less and less people. Not blaming that Sex and Shanghai guy though, he is a LW not one of Chinese, no manner to control himself is understandable.