I first heard about Han Han during the T!bet riots in back in ‘08. I stumbled across a QQ message that was being forwarded around of an interview he did. The interview was pretty much his response to the rising sense of nationalism and anti-foreign sentiment at the time. I found it interesting and went ahead and translated it, then blogged about it here. Ever since then, I’ve been following his blog somewhat and have learned a bit more about him.

He’s an interesting guy and commendable for the fact that he’s willing to go against the grain, even when doing so is highly unpopular. For that reason, I was stoked to read CHINAYOUREN’s blog post, here, about Han Han’s recent announcement that he’d be publishing a magazine.

Head on over and check it out. I am definitely excited to see issue #1.