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Everyone’s favourite China user and abuser, Chinabounder, has returned - flicking the lights back on at his blog: Sex and Shanghai/欲望上海.

As with his last return, he seems much more focused on sticking it to the Chinese government than he does sticking it to random Chinese girls - that was after all what originally gained him so much infamy.

The main reason he seems to have logged back into his Blogspot account after a six month absence is to tout a new book, Fault Lines on the Face of China: 50 Reasons Why China Will Never Be Great, by David Marriott and Karl Lacroix.

The book, which was allegedly published recently in Japan by Random House Kodansha, is definitely not searching for common ground with the Middle Kingdom, and from its press release seems more incitement than insightful. Points in case, the chapter list:

• The Domestic Imperialists
• Children – The Endangered Species
• The Godless
• The Mirror of Japan – The War of Apology
• Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics
• Once the Masters of Invention
• The Fallibility of Chinese Characters
• A Nation of Health Terrorists
• It Takes a Man to Hold Up Half the Sky
• Daughters, Wives and Mothers in Fear

Chinabounder’s connection to the book is left vague, but he has announced that in its pages is revealed his true identity. Once it held high bounty with the human search engines, now however, does anyone really care?

Update - 07/18/08

Looks like Chinabounder has given up his identity to The Guardian - and with little surprise, it is David Marriott, one of the authors of the book mentioned above.