Interview of Me.

I recently did an email interview. Here are my answers.

1.    I read you’ve opened your blog on July first 2003, why have you begun and what’s your goal?

I wanted to tell people about the democratic movement in Hong Kong. I just came home from the article 23 protest and started writing about my thoughts down, how Hong Kong should be democratic, how we should be able to maintain free speech, in fact people in China should have those rights also. I kept going and never stopped. Two years later I am still writing about how I feel that Hong Kong Deserves Democracy, free speech issues in China and Internet censorship in China by US companies.

My goal is to make people aware that these are important issues that everyday people should take an interest in. I write about other stuff in my life because it makes me real. I am just like most people, I have feelings, likes, dislikes, loves and heartbreak. I have flaws and strengths, through it all, as normal as I am. I still believe in these political causes, and I hope they will too.

2.    How is changed your life from when you’ve started to blog?

It helped me make a name for myself as an artist. I had a public space to show my work and through time I gained some recognition. But you must understand, that’s got nothing to do with “The Blog,” it has everything to do with “My Work,” the blog is just somewhere I put my writing, my photos and art. Those things are real. Glutter is  just a public face of my work.

3.    Have you ever had some problem with censorship?

Yes. In April 2004, my blog was banned in China by the “Great Firewall,” it was unviewable in China for 10 months, now it comes on and off. The first time it happened, I organized an online protest where over 100 sites around the world turned their site black. We did it for 40 days and it ended on press freedom day. The protest was reported on Slashdot, a very large American internet magazine, after that Slashdot was banned also.

As for the reason it was blocked in China? Because I wrote that I wished for a democratic China, one where a billion people can choose their own government.

4.    How many blogger are in China and there is some connection about them? Do you stay in touch with some of them? Who they are?

 

I have no idea. There are a lot of studies out but I can’t remember numbers. When I started a had some friends but now we’re all 30, we’re all really busy now.

5.Which are the more discussed topics from Chinese blogger? And what about the women blogger, which are their preferred topics?

I think that it’s very dangerous to generalize. The beauty of blogging is that each individual person can put forth their point of view.

6.    How many women blogger are in China?

50%?

7.    I read about  Chinese sex women blogger, do you know some of them and what do you think about them?

I feel the same way towards as I would someone writing about politics, raising children or even make up. I am glad someone finds a way to express what she wants do. It’s only the journalists who like to make it a story. Some women write about sex. No big deal.

8.    Do you think they speak about sex for a sense of emancipation or for something else?

I think you need to ask them why they do it. I cannot speak for other people.

9.    In your opinion why the authorities do not close these types of blog and which kind of blog the Chinese authorities filter more?

There is no political threat to the government if a woman writes about sex. Why should they close it down?

The sites they filter are the ones with “sensitive” political material. Anything to do with democracy in China and Hong Kong, freedom for Tibet, Free speech violations, and information about the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. The Communist Government has never publicly acknowledged the event to the Chinese people. Most people don’t know it happened and those who do, are forced into silence because my government doesn’t want the Chinese people to know that they shot at their own and killed them with tanks.

10.    How blog and Internet are changing the Chinese society? Can you give me some examples?

The way the internet has changed society in the west it’s the same as the way it’s changing it in China. We are people like people in Europe are people. We deal with technology the same way. I don’t believe in making specifics over what Chinese people are or do, over people themselves.

As for blogging changing society, no government, no NGO, no newspaper or best intended people have been able to solve the great problems we face as human beings. I really doubt blogging will.

11.    How internet is changing women condition? And what about the future, how can internet’ll able to change the Chinese society?

I think the internet allows women to find information about their bodies, about sex, or find like minded people to discuss their lives. Some women will find communities or help through the internet with difficult topics such as abortion, sexual abuse, miscarriages and things like that. They will find someone they need to talk to, or able to share their experiences. Things that are much harder to do in real life. But that’s not Chinese women, that’s women  in general. The internet has empowered us to have more information regarding our lives and health as never before.

12.    What dreams for your future for the China’s future and for the Chinese women?

Freedom, Equality, Respect for one billion people.