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I am leaving China for good. After 5 years in the country, and over 3 years writing this blog, it is time to say goodbye.
I wanted to write a closing post, even if the blog has been closed de facto for many months. The busy work activities of my last year in Shanghai and the arrangements to move into my next country have left me no time for writing. The appearance of new lands on the horizon has inevitably captured my attention, and left little of it for the productive obsession that was the sinosphere.
In the last year of the blog, after my website was blocked in China for the second time , there has been a marked decline in readership. I had to let go the original Chinayouren.com domain which had a privileged position on Google, and domain squatters used it to host an erotic website, and then a marketing site, hoping to make money off my SEO. I'm sure they have already made more than I ever did from the site.