Xu Lai, who writes under the pseudonym Qian Liexian, was attacked Saturday evening at the Wanda branch of the Beijing Danxiangjie Book Store, a staffer there confirmed Monday.
He was meeting readers "and it happened after that," said the clerk, who declined to give her name as is common among Chinese. She gave no other details.
Xu, who is also culture editor at the Beijing News paper, was apparently stabbed in the store's bathroom by two men who later fled, according to friends and fellow bloggers who posted the news online.
The motive was unclear for the assault, which was the first known physical attack on a prominent blogger.
Xu's blog, entitled "Qian Liexian Wants to Speak," offers witty, satirical observations on society and politics. At times provocative, he has also commented on government corruption and the recent scandal of milk contaminated with an industrial chemical.
Last year, he was listed among the "20 Most Influential Figures in China's Cyberspace" by Southern Metropolis Weekly. Xu was in a Beijing hospital Monday recovering after surgery for his wounds, which were not life-threatening, according to postings by friends on the bullogger.com Web site.
"According to the doctor, there was only a small hole in his stomach, and no other injuries were found in his other organs," one post said. "The doctor said it seemed that he was in a good condition. So people who care for him should not worry."
Police responsible for that area of Beijing did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Xu's blog was one of many hosted on the Chinese blogging Web site bullog.cn, which was shut down in January as part of a government crackdown on the Internet. The successor site, bullogger.com, is hosted overseas.
Online writers and commentators in China are often censored and sometimes persecuted by authorities over controversial postings.
The contest took a tragic turn when one of the mistresses, who was eliminated based on her looks, drove her former lover and the four other women off a mountain road in an apparent fit of anger, the Shanghai Daily reported.
The driver died in the December 6 crash while the man and four other women were hospitalised, the report said.
Initially, it was thought to be an accident, but then details of the bizarre contest emerged in a letter left by the dead woman, a 29-year-old former waitress surnamed Yu, the newspaper said.
The woman met the entrepreneur, surnamed Fan, at the restaurant where she worked in the coastal city of Qingdao in 2000 and became his lover, the report said.
Fan later introduced her to the four other mistresses -- two of his employees and two former clients -- with all given a 5,000-yuan (733-dollar) monthly allowance and rent-free apartment, the report said.
However, when Fan's business ran into tough times, he decided to lay off all but one woman, the report said.
Fan hired an instructor from a modelling agency to judge a private contest he held at a hotel in May, but he did not tell the women about his intentions.
Yu was eliminated in the first-round beauty competition and a woman surnamed Liu eventually won after dominating the drinking round, the report said.
When Fan told Yu she was dismissed and that he was selling her apartment, she decided to exact revenge during a group outing.
After the accident Fan paid Yu's parents 580,000 yuan as compensation for her death. His wife divorced him after learning of his affairs, the report said, adding the other four mistresses also left him.
The tale was reported in other Chinese media, but none gave further details about Fan, such as his age or profession.
The mother choose girlfriend for her son by viewing girl's profile
She is promoting her son with her son's profile in her hand.
Is this a crowed job fair in China? The answer is negative. It's a blind-date-fair held in Nanning, Guangxi province on St. Valentine's Day. Over 10,000 young people registered in advance, but on Valentine's day their parents came.
Two police ladies telling what had happened on the 12th February.
Ja Shouguang is investigated by police in police station.
Ja Shouguang, the director of Songyuan municipal office, state administration of taxation "played" with two police ladies in the afternoon of 12th February. Now he has been suspended from his duties.
Ladies says, "At 15:30 we were on patrol, a grey Jetta with lisence plate "Ji J27582" stopped half meter behind us, we were frightened when we turned around. there were two men sit in that car, and you can got alcohol smell even half meter away. The driver rolled down his window , yelling "come on, catch me!". After that the driver started engine and drove toward us."
Ja shouguan says, "I did drink a lot of alcohol, but I intended to make a joke. If I know the consequances clearly I will never do that."
A policeman killed a civilian in this residence community (Guanheng Garden) on the 13th February。
Ji Zhongchun, policeman, born in 1964, had a dinner with his friend together in the evening of the 13th February. Later Ji Zhongchun drove his sedan (Lisence plate: YUN GA6455) to a residence community in where one of his friends lives.
The car reversed into another seden belonged to Pan Jun, a factory director. They had quarrelled and body contacts. In the end, Ji Zhongchun took his gun, shot 3 bullets at Pan Jun.
At 4:20, in the morning of valentine's day, the public security bureau of Menzi hold a meeting on this case.
At present, Ji Zhongchun was taken in custody on charge of murder.
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