PWNT? Sad.

But reading the youtube comments is even sadder, as usual.

99.9% of people on this planet is LOL and WTF. Mindless drones.

I hope planet earth gets fried by gamma ray bursts in the next few hours...

LOL. I didn't realize this woman is/was the host of Beside you. Have you seen her show, on Beijing TV, called Beside You?

IT'S MAJOR PWN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

Hu Ziwei was named the most beautiful woman in business TV in 2005; Danwei translated her rant against He Zhili earlier this year.

I don't think she made a good argumet. To make her point, she quoted some French--wrong! I do not known if this is prejudice, stereotype or something: French should be the last people on the planet to take her side. Probably they would not make a fuss over matters like this at all. Just think about their presidents they ellected...

The wife, interestingly, tried to build some connection between her marital grieviance and China's famous bid to PEACEFULLY RISE AS A GREAT COUNTRY. Her point is clear to me: China is not going to be a great country until it can export its value to the rest of the world(I assume what she means here is a higher moral standards), and her husband's misbehavior undermined China's value, therefore made him an enemy of China.

小事一桩尔，不过YOUtube上的评论，真TMD恶心。

poor lady. she's ruined her career now. Can't imagine what a beast could make a woman so desparate.

We are so positive that it is ALL the guy's fault. No way that this lady could be a bit psycho. NO WAY. No seriously, the very fact of her actions proves that she is a bit psycho. If your man is sleeping around, fine, leave his sorry butt, but do it at home, don't drag it into the public space.

And for those who are attributing this to the Chinese culture, give me a break, how about looking at it as a domestic thing that could have happened anywhere on the planet.

It's not a deep Confucian issue people. Chinese women are not being oppressed, no more than women else where at least.

When did marital affairs become an Olympic sport?
What a fantastic cell phone video! Is that her husband; the guy who appears to put his hands over his ears during her monologue?

We can all look forward to witnessing the most amusing Olympic media coverage EVER; I can't wait to see all the funny stuff on Danwei this summer!

Husband cheating on wife is wrong. There is no excuse around it. BUT, for a wife to PUBLICLY humiliate a husband in front of his peers is absolutely intolerable. No matter how serious things get at home, you LEAVE IT AT HOME. It's unprofessional and doesn't accomplish anything. I condemn them both for these irresponsible behaviors.

Danwei's previous article on Hu Ziwei, in which she pontificates on Chinese ping pong player He Zhili, is very useful in gaining insight as to how her mind works, ... (if you think a mind is necessary for one of China's most beautiful business bodies)

Spelunker presents:

Should we pardon Zheng Bin?
by Hu Ziwei/Spelunker / Broken Mirror

Recently, hundreds of bloggers wrote a few comments about Zheng Bin, bringing this controversial figure of my past back into a swirling argument. As for whether CCTV is truly acting out of a desire to give Zheng Bin a place to have intercourse with interns 2 hours before taping, or if he has some other motive, I will not be so rash as to speculate here. However, I believe that Zheng Bin should not be pardoned.

Zheng Bin is different from Koyama Chire
[the Chinese ping pong player who married a Japanese]; Koyama Chire is a professional athlete who plays overseas. She handles a ping pong paddle with an even mind and a spirit of true sportsmanship, but my husband acted out of self-interest and a mind for personal glory, and caused heartache for his wife through his defiance and betrayal.

Bluntly put, victory over Chinese husbands became the motivation for me to vent my personal vengeance during the Olympics press conference. Did you know he continually let loose with shouts of "Yes!" before I walked in on his tryst, as piercing to my ears as "bakayaro."

Some might say that extramarital affairs violate principles of openness, fairness, and justice in marriages. But actually this interpretation is somewhat superficial.

Think for a moment: suppose Zheng Bin was a famous politician in France, and the French president said, "you must feed zee ball to a forward and let zee forwards shoot." Would Zheng Bin say, "I can score, too. Why are other French diplomats scoring on models and getting all the glory?"

You could say that to get revenge, I steeled myself like Koyama Chire, and after years of painful waiting finally struck back. To some degree you could say that this exceeds the bounds of humility. And we have yet to see an apology from him for those events; the name Zheng Bin is still being used today in the CCTV-5 studio ladies restroom.

My tolerance is conditional. Some things cannot be forgiven, and history cannot be forgotten.

Actually, a wife publicly belittling (or should I say castrating?) her husband in public for such a humiliation is more Chinese then you think...

I am very grateful to Hu Ziwei for what she did.

I don't care too much why she did it, but that she had the chutzpah to air her private grievances (i.e., something REAL) on a TV channel ceremony (something completely FALSE, manipulative, corrupt) is awesome.

Wasn't it wonderful to see the whole power structure of a TV station crumble like that? All those patriarchal men on stage made powerless before a single woman with a grievance to air! And all the functionaries trying to stop people from taking photos or videos (as if some sacred symbol's dark underside had been exposed) suddenly stripped of their power to control what we can and can't see. Wasn't it wonderful to see the curtains pulled down on the utter kindergarten otherwise known as TV?

And, let's face it: The Olympics is the World's Biggest Advertising Convention. So, it's oddly appropriate to me that Hu used this Olympic movement to advertise her grievances. Perfectly aligned with Olympic tradition.

For those of you say her behavior was unprofessional -- well, if only a lot more people were less "professional," the world might be a more sane, humane place. Since when did professionalism gain some kind of moral quality? "Professional" people sitting on most of the boards of most of the multinationals on the planet are professionally killing the planet everyday. I know many people who are totally "professional" but are moral abysses -- they lie, cheat, censor, backstab, destroy and will do almost anything for money. In the context of media, professionalism is a word that means "Look Good, Talk Nice." In Hu's case, what a relief to see someone do something personally embarrassing and unpretty.

Even though the cause of Hu's hijacking the microphone was something as unremarkable as a husband cheating on his wife, the result was sublime: a single person brought down the usual facade of lies that TV tends to be -- simply by acting like a normal human being.

Sure, she was unprofessional (bless her soul), but she actually said exactly what she was feeling and thinking. No cheap sarcasm. No manipulative sensationalism. Not a thread of irony. She was mad and she unleashed her anger as honestly as possible.

What an unusual thing for TV anywhere.

And the cool thing is that we didn't even have to watch a TV set to see it! Direct from the studio to Youtube.

Seriously: China's media landscape in 2008 is looking very promising.

Hu Ziwei, good for you.

This clip was just shown on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. I hope Danwei follows up on the story and lets us know what happens to the parties involved.... ;-)

poor woman. i believe the fact must drive her crazy and she just cant take it anymore. she is a quite good hostess on beijing tv station and i hope she can calm down and think 4 a while b4 she did this.but the truth is too late. did she realize that after she did this she would ruin everything.

btw, i just noticed that the catalog on this webpage puzzled me a little bit, why do you say china jobs instead of chinese jobs?

happy new year to all

For those people who said that she should've left it at home...

You obviously haven't seen what infidelity makes to a person's sanity. She had just found out, like two hours earlier to the event. She wasn't thinking properly. How could you condemn her for reacting to something that teared her world apart? I've seen wives screaming in the middle of the street, trying to beat their husbands for having cheating on them. Hu Ziwei's reaction was even calm compared to what I have seen.

Well, if I watched t.v, I would not want to watch that stuff. I mean it's just like gawking at a brawl on the street, completely pointless.

I see where you guys are coming from, but I still think she shouldn't act out in public, on a international level, like that. At least I don't care for it, maybe I'm just cold-hearted. I DON'T GIVE A F**K ABOUT YOUR MARTIAL PROBLEMS! She should have set his car on fire or something.

But on another level, she did PWN them all on an international level, which I think kicks ass. Okay, fine, I agree with you now, happy? Simply for the fact she PWNED THEM ALL! Internationally baby! We all wish for this kind of 15 min fame, right? LOL, they call me village idi.. (no), I mean mr. contradiction.

Anyone have any news about her whereabouts now?

I just found this report, but not certain if it's reliable or not:

"Hu reportedly has been dismissed from her job and detained by the Beijing police, charged with "damaging the image of the Olympic Games." She may not be released until after the Games."

link

chris: the "reportedly" in that piece refers to an ETToday article that quoted an unnamed "mainland netizen" for that information, so judge for yourself....

"Qi Ge", the freelancer in Sichuan, misleads readers in his first paragraph by implying that Hu Ziwei interrupted a live broadcast.
He also does an amusing job of linking Hu Ziwei's incident with the potential for violent social unrest in China. He even finds a way to make a connection between previous terrorist acts (Palestinian and North Korean) and China's current hosting of the Olympics ("divided host country", get it?)

And now for something completely different:
Chongqing Today speculates (with photos!) on the lucky lady who "warmed up" Zhang Bin 2 hours before taping:

http://cqtoday.cqnews.net/system/2008/01/12/001025509.shtml

Joel: this was in a Time piece on the story:

"According to Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television, Hu was later jailed on charges of damaging the name of China and the Olympic Games, and will only be released after the Games are over." link

Maybe Phoenix is getting their info from the same source you mentioned.

Would be interesting if "damaging the name of the Olympic Games" is really an offense punishable by 8 or 9 months incarceration.

Today's Southern Metropolis Weekly has paparazzi photos of Hu Ziwei going in and out of her apartment and walking with a colleague on the 11th, so she's certainly not incarcerated.

Hu Ziwei's doppelganger in Kaohsiung：

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2008/01/18/139516/Teacher-vents.htm

TAIPEI -- A junior high school teacher in Kaohsiung used her school's public loudspeakers yesterday to announce her divorce from her colleague, who had been unfaithful.

"I am already divorced from Teacher Chen, because he has had an affair," said the geography teacher in a soft voice.

Funny it seems the dear propoganda seal has clamped down Youtube and Tudou. Anyone else know where I can view the clip?