what Fang did to Han. http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-rebel-with-a-cause-1470957372?tesla=y

I write “was” because Han Han’s writing has mostly disappeared since 2013. He “now barely blogs at all,” as translators Alice Xin Liu and Joel Martinsen write in their introduction. This change makes “The Problem with Me” a strange book, marketed by its publisher as a perspective on “making trouble in China today” but devoid of any essays written after Xi Jinping became China’s president in March 2013. Readers hoping to hear Mr. Han take on Mr. Xi’s personality cult or the censorship ruckus spawned last year by actress Fan Bingbing’s cleavage will be disappointed.

Speculation about this change runs rampant among his readers. Is Mr. Han simply a celebrity who has given up blogging because there are more lucrative ways to stay in the limelight? Or is he being silenced? Is he frustrated by the sense that he couldn’t make China’s resilient authoritarian system budge? Or has he settled into the pleasures of family life? Whatever the cause, the reticence of this potent rebel is keenly felt—nowhere more so than in China.