Aegean Sea (website)
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Type of site | Humanistic thought website[1] |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 20, 2001 |
| Dissolved | March 9, 2006 |
| Founder(s) | Zhang Jianhong[2] |
| URL | www.aiqinhai.org www.77sea.com |
The Aegean Sea website,[3] commonly known as Aiqinhai[4] and based in Hangzhou, China,[5] was an ideological and humanistic website[6] that preached freedom and democracy.[7] The website was founded on May 20, 2001[8] by Zhang Jianhong,[9] who also served as its editor-in-chief,[10] and with poet Bei Dao as general advisor,[11] and was closed on March 9, 2006.[12]
Aegean Sea boasted itself as "The Last Clean Paradise of Chinese Literatures".[13]