方滨兴挨鞋成为国际大丑闻之三Foreign Policy：Great firewall architect gets shoe'd and egg'd

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Posted By Joshua Keating  Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 11:45 AM  Share

The shoe club has a new member:

A Twitter user posting under the name "hanunyi" claimed that one of the shoes struck computer expert Fang Binxing while he was visiting Wuhan University in Hubei province. Fang, president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is popularly known as the "father of the Great Firewall" and is reviled by many Chinese Web users.

An officer at the Luojiashan Public Security Bureau confirmed police were sent to the university to investigate a shoe-throwing incident that targeted Fang. The officer, who refused to give his name, said Fang was on his way to the airport.

"Hanunyi" posted a live account of the alleged shoe toss on his Twitter page, including photos of the door to the lecture hall where it happened, a hand clutching an egg in preparation and bare feet after he fled.

"The egg missed the target. The first shoe hit the target. The second shoe was blocked by a man and a woman," he wrote.

He described running away from the scene and three hours later expressed surprise at the huge online response.

"I didn't think this little thing would get such a big response," he wrote on Twitter.

Fang is in august company. Ever since Muntazer al-Zaidi's shoe toss at President Bush, other victims have included Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram, (possibly) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,former IMF chief/alleged sex criminal Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Zaidi himself.