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A checkered flag[1]

From the beginning, Han spurned conventional narrative for a personal voice. He does not scream like his May 4th Movement predecessors. Instead, he resorts to satire and black humor, which characterize both his fiction and non-fiction. Although he has managed to offend orthodox thinkers, his writing is capable of great subtlety and nuance, which is buried under a thick coating of abrasiveness.

Unfortunately, he says, most of his detractors never bother to read his books. It's also possible his supporters read only a few of his posts, thus stripping him of his complexity in their assessment.

In just one decade, Han has evolved from a straight arrow to a sharp shooter who pretends to be firing indiscriminately - all the while retaining the veneer of unruliness. His targets appear to be the Writers Association, literary figureheads, forced relocation and traffic regulations, but it is what they stand for that he is aiming at.

When he used his experience of being a racing driver to comment on the Hangzhou speed-and-kill accident, the official version that the driver was doing 70 km/hour was exposed as a joke, turning public scrutiny in the direction of possible collusion between traffic police and the wealthy driver, or between power and money.

But there are occasions when Han ventures outside his realm of expertise and falters, such as his criticism of the wildly popular magician Louis Liu (Lu Chen), who he criticized for shilling after the magician's performance at the year-end TV gala. Han deleted his post the next day.