from the ABC little chick site in Xanga

internet - An ABC-chick in Shanghai

Mostly I tend to ignore weblogs by just-arriving foreigners. They are all a little bit the same, dealing with the same boring problems, based on the same prejudices about China they cannot escape, even when they are here.
The famous China Blog List is still a tool I would use, but very seldom I would be inclined to visit the new blogs. When they are worthwhile, they will pop up at my radar screen in another way. Now, I had to make an exception for a relative newcomer, an ABC-chick in Shanghai. (Unfortunately, on blogger, so you have to use a proxy.)
Judging from the comments I'm a late-comer in finding this weblog. It is not a racy as its male predecessor Sex in Shanghai, but certainly fun to read, although the number of entries is really low. A little taste:

I have to admit, I am one of them. Giving the other beautiful girls a fierce glance, but in fact it is just another worthless envious gaze. We girls know what we are doing in this club: we are not there because of the tasty drinks, not because of the cool music, but because of the guys, to get as much attention as possible from the guys. In Shanghai it is also much easier to hook up than in Belgium. The reason for that is the boost of my confidence everytime I'm in Shanghai. A sweet smile will take you far enough to catch the guy's attention.

Since it shares the same tune in its URL (Chinaboundress) as Sex in Shanghai there is room to suspect a nice little set-up by creative sociologists who want to explore the online behavior of the English-language internet in China. But, hey, as long as they can write well, who cares?

Update: The dime only fell very late. This weekend we had a bit of a drinking session with James Farrer, a good friend and the most eminent sociologist on sex in China, who was over for a short trip from Tokyo. This kind of research is right up in his alley. He had lost his voice, he did a good job at drinking, so I did not ask him too many questions when he evaded mine on why he was in China. If I would know about it and was bribed enough to shut up, I would not have written this. Anyway, truth will prevail, although we do not know yet when.