On November 21, 2008 (October 24, 2008 in the lunar calendar), Professor Yang Shiqun's "counter-revolutionary" storm. Yang Shiqun hoped that this unexpected incident would be put to rest as soon as possible. A blog post from half a month ago completely disrupted Yang Shiqun's peaceful life. Yang Shiqun is a professor and master's tutor at the Legal History Research Center of East China University of Political Science and Law. His blog on a portal has a rather academic and lengthy name, "Restoring History, Facing the Present, Exploring the Future". The blog post that later caused a great sensation was posted here, with the title "A Classmate Accuses Me of" Counter-Revolution ". In the blog post, Mr. Yang described one of his encounters: "... Students who took the Ancient Chinese class sued me at the Public Security Bureau and the Municipal Education Commission, saying that I criticized the government during the class, and the investigation has been filed." In the blog post, Yang admitted that during the class, "Of course, I will criticize some traditional Chinese culture related to the text, and if some traditional cultural issues have some relationship with today, I will also contact today and criticize the government." He recalled that two female students came to him after class one day, "indignantly accusing me of criticizing Chinese culture! Criticizing the government! Even with tears in my eyes. "In the blog post, Yang estimated that the two women may have reported it. He expressed admiration for the courage of the two women to love traditional culture, but could not understand their approach. At the end of the blog post, which was less than 700 words long, Yang lamented that" this kind of thing actually happened in 21st century China, on a Chinese university campus! It's so incredible! "The blog post was uploaded at 4:19 p.m. on Nov. 21, 2008, and was hidden after 7 p.m. on Nov. 25. In less than a week, click through rates and follow-ups rose rapidly, and hundreds of follow-ups began to engage in a highly charged debate behind Yang's blog post. Yang recalled that some media people also quietly left him messages on their blogs, hoping to learn the ins and outs of the matter, but he has gradually calmed down and refused all interviews. He told a reporter that he judged that the school's attitude was still trying to protect him, and his motivation was only to relax his mind on his private blog, and he did not want to expand the situation. On the evening of November 25, after receiving a phone call from a friend, he even took the initiative to hide the blog. He also did not expect that the huge power of the Internet would quickly make a blog become the focus of media attention and a topic of public debate. In just a few days, his colleagues, Wang Xiaoyu, Zhang Ming and other scholars who also live in universities, would participate in writing articles criticizing this whistleblowing phenomenon. In fact, this blog post, which is now only available through a search engine snapshot, originated from a conversation that day. The two ensuing conversations happened to be on Nov. 21, which happened to be a Friday. Yang Shiqun was out of class. He received a call asking him to go to the office building of the College of Humanities. As soon as he entered the door, several college leaders were waiting for him. A college leader went straight to the point and said that a student directly reported your remarks in class to the Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Municipal Education Commission. Now the relevant department has opened a case on this matter. We are now mainly verifying with you two things. One is whether you talked about an illegal organization in class, and the other is whether you mentioned an overseas website. Yang recalled that he immediately replied that it was impossible. He neither believed nor understood the former, so he would not involve it at all, and he also knew the limits of the latter, and it was even more impossible to touch it. The conversation ended soon, but this contact with the hospital leaders for more than ten minutes made Yang Shiqun feel very uneasy. After teaching for nearly 20 years, this was the first time he had encountered such a thing. When he returned to the office that afternoon, he published this blog post. Looking back at the article "A Classmate Told Me That I Was a" Counter-Revolutionary ", Yang admitted that he was rather excited at the time, and it was inevitable that the words were emotional. The next day was Saturday, but Yang Shiqun's weekend was not peaceful. That day he was called to talk, and the location was changed to the principal's office in Building 4 of Huazheng Changning Campus. A vice principal in charge of teaching was waiting for him there. Along with the school leader, there were four or five leaders of the humanities college, the school's academic affairs office, and the security office who had talked to him the day before. The conversation, led by the vice principal, was still focused on verifying the two questions from the previous day, asking if there had been any talk about an illegal organization in class, which Yang again denied. Less than half an hour into the conversation, Yang felt uneasy when he found a leader holding what appeared to be a transcript written by the student who reported him. Yang felt very sad in his heart, and he repeatedly said to the school leader, "It's really sad that this happened." The school leader, who was also his colleague at the Legal History Research Center, finally comforted him, saying that we were just checking the relevant issues, nothing else. In the future, we should talk more about mainstream things in class, and we should try to talk less about content that has nothing to do with textbooks. We should pay special attention to freshmen, and remember: "There is academic freedom, and there is discipline in the classroom."