The Sydney Morning Herald (first discovered by Marc van der Chijs) suggest that the now famous "Sex and Shanghai" weblog was no more than a hoax set up by a group of artists. They base their conclusion on an email they got:
"We did not anticipate quite the level of anger this would raise," said the message, which said the authors behind the cyber name "Chinabounder" included a British man, an Australian woman, two Chinese men and a Japanese woman.That possibility was always playing somewhere in the back of my mind, as it should always be. Of course, chances that this email is the real hoax is equally realistic.
