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Blog Therapy is Taiwanese blogger Sunflower's second collection of literary essays. Written during February and December 2010, these are her comments on all aspects of Chinese and Western literature and arts. These writings stand the test of time because their subjects do.
Compared to Sunflower's first book, The Secret of Time, the writing style in Blog Therapy is more objective, based more on professional research and analysis and less on personal reflection. While the 40 essays collected here continue to highlight Sunflower's passion in generating new connections between seemingly irrelevant ideas, views, techniques and genres, they also include a series of discussions and debates on various unique Internet phenomena, including blog therapy, Web 2.0, Human Flesh Search, and the notorous "grass mud horse" in China, just to name a few. Her interests on the emerging trend of digital publishing and reading are also evident.
Throughout Blog Therapy, Sunflower is of the view that one of the most important functions of the Internet is to help promote democractic values. While everyone should have a voice and a channnel through which such voice can be heard, they also have unlmited access not only to other people's views but also to means by which they can freely respond to these views. Looking back at this today, it is amazing how the Internet has evolved since 2010.
About the author
Born in Taipei, Taiwan and now based in Melbourne, Australia, Sunflower is a writer, translator, reader, reviewer, journalist, independent scholar and publisher of digital and print books in both Chinese and English languages.
