'ChinaBounder' David Marriot Gives '50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great'

An anonymous British blogger who wrote about his sexual escapades with Chinese women for two years has revealed his identity as he publishes a controversial new book.

David Marriot, who claims to be an Oxbridge graduate, sparked a cyberspace man-hunt after he set up a blog where he posted entries boasting of his many and varied carnal encounters with the women of Shanghai.

Using the name ChinaBounder (流氓外教), the self-styled western Lothario sparked outrage among the men of Shanghai with his graphic descriptions of his success with Chinese women.

The online campaign drew over 17,000 visitors and Marriot was threatened with murder and castration by conservative Chinese claiming he had blackened their country's good name.

However, although he was thought to be an English teacher in his thirties, his cover was never completely blown.

Now he has decided to reveal his identity in a publicity attempt for his new book, Fault Lines on the Face of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great.

The book itself will add further insult to Chinese injury as it dismisses their country's attempts to tout itself as a global force.


Modern China has displayed a history of over-reacting to any form of criticism, not just against the country or the Communist party," Marriot told The Guardian.

"Chinese leaders have fashioned a response based on what they perceive the people of China to be, and a few elitists now often decide what offends people of the motherland," he added.

Zhang Jiehai (张结海), a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, who led the online campaign, has urged Chinese readers not to buy it.

"ChinaBounder said he had fifty reasons to assume China will not be great," said Zhang in an online statement.

"In contrary, I have at least one reason to say Britain can be great...... But one thing I believe in is that there is a chance for China to become great again, a far greater chance than for Britain."

The self-confessed Casanova also said he had written his sexblog as a "mental purge and colonic for my sexual adventures" and in an attempt to secure his "fifteen minutes of fame".

Source: Telegraph

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