CNN专访韩寒 China's rebel blogger Hanhan 2/2 （中文字幕）

June 2, 2010 CNN Asia Talk
(CNN) -- Han Han is China's rebel writer who has become the unofficial voice for his generation.

As a teenager the 27-year-old began writing novels about angst-ridden characters that proved tremendously popular with China's angsty youth.

But it is his blog that has propelled him to celebrity status in China and earned him the accolade as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009.

He's been touted as mouthpiece for the "post-80's generation"; China's youth who have grown up during the country's economic boom and are often characterized as apolitical and consumer-obsessed.

Blogging about issues such as the Chinese government's handling of the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 and recent spate of school stabbings, Han Han is savvy enough to know the limits of what he can and can't write about.

"Even though the Chinese government has improved on the freedom of speech front in recent years, writing is still rather dangerous, so it's quite difficult to strike this balance," he told CNN.

"But I believe you still need to try despite these difficulties. The situation only improves when there are more people trying; if no one is trying, it only gets more and more difficult."

With boyish good-looks and a rebel's cred (he dropped out of high-school and races rally cars) he's become one of China's more popular and recognizable bloggers, where the Internet is an increasingly popular forum for self-expression.

For Jeremy Goldkorn, a China media commentator, Han's attitude combined with his writing helps strike a chord with millions of China's disaffected youth.

"What separates Han Han from the other popular bloggers is, I think... he's got attitude. He is provocative and he reflects some of the anxieties that young people feel about the way China is today," said Goldkorn.

He may be outspoken but Han is not an activist in the vein of human rights and freedom of speech campaigner Liu Xiabao, who was jailed in 2009. Coming from a different generation from Han sees himself more aligned with artists rather than political iconoclasts.

"I'm not asking or requesting much -- I just hope that all the people in arts, all the literati, painters, and directors can work in an unregulated and uncensored environment," he said.

"But to be honest, the Chinese government and Chinese officials aren't as scary or as evil as what outsiders perceive. Their thinking process is a bit old-fashioned and stupid, but not evil. Except towards people who they believe might threaten the government, of course this relates mostly to many political events in the past."

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[americajordan7]

韩寒就是傻逼中的傻逼.

傻逼独唱团怎么不办了.

最近是消停了.

[Schwanengans]

@americajordan7 你脑子有病啊，独唱团是上面不让办的，你去问中宣部。

你不要高兴地太早，该启蒙的已经都有觉悟了，会有越来越多的人民­群众站出来跟你作斗争的。

[Rayanna1123]

但是我觉得他现在混的很好在中国也过得很滋润，说明天朝其实很容­忍啊

[mygoat0604]

@mygoat0604 另外您說的的文章我去看了，讀來的確是有見到他往保守的路線妥協­的味道，不過很多見解談到對真正民主的意涵跟價值我還是肯定的，­只是我東看西看怎麼就沒看到他哪句說支持中國征服？還請幫我指出­，感謝。

[mygoat0604]

@americajordan7 您也多慮了，再看一次我的回應吧！我說哪天要我改變立場支持統一­的前提條件都還沒發生，眼下我還是覺得分開對我們比較好。

[americajordan7]

@Schwanengans

斗争你个汉奸.

[americajordan7]

@mygoat0604

哈哈哈,韩寒今年初写的论民主论自由论革命已经明确表示人家现在­支持中国征服了.

你们深绿的千万别支持两岸统一,你们越折腾,大陆越高兴.

像马英九这样的大陆不喜欢.

[mygoat0604]

@americajordan7 我身為一個台灣人就還挺欣賞韓寒、尊重韓寒的，坦白說我可以算是­個鐵桿深綠台獨支持者，但哪天要是中國遍地是韓寒這種敢講帶種的­人，整天敏感詞來敏感詞去都不會被刪帖不會被河蟹，到那時候或許­我有可能會反過來支持兩岸統一吧

[fishleongfan]

@Rayanna1123 希望大部分韩寒都被天朝容忍

[leexsd007]

@Rayanna1123 ni gao

[americajordan7]

你丫推翻共产党你就立马过的好了?

有能力的人到哪里都当博士.

没能力的人到美国你就牛叉了?

逼样的到哪里都混不好.

还就不能知道别人好别人强.

不过无所谓,

你们这样的除了和韩傻逼一样浅薄外.

你说你到那里让别人尊重你了..