Fang Xingdong
Fang Xingdong () is a Chinese former internet entrepreneur in the early 2000s and currently a Leading Professor of Liberal Arts at Zhejiang University, Professor and Doctoral supervisor at the School of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University, deputy director of the Integrated Media Research Center, Chief Expert of the Institute of Social Governance at Zhejiang University, Deputy Chairman of the Zhejiang University Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, and Vice President and executive director of the Museum and History Communication Committee of the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Mass Communication. He has completed more than 50 Internet-related national and provincial projects and undertaking several major projects. He is the initiator of the "Oral History of the Internet" (OHI) project, the founder and director of the CyberLabs, and the founder of BlogChina. He has participated in, witnessed, and tracked the research on China's Internet development. He launched the blogchina.com (now bokee.com) in 2002 and received some funding from venture capital firms in 2005. But it quickly became a complete failure in just half an year. He is a proponent of cyber sovereignty and sometimes writes for Global Times, a Chinese 'belligerent state tabloid'. A controversial