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China's mysterious "tuberculosis ambassador"Posted by Eric Mu on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 2:34 PM
 Dongguan Times March 18, 2009 Peng Liyuan, China's national ambassador for the control and prevention of tuberculosis, was shown on the front page of today's Dongguan Times meeting the city's party chief, Liu Zhigeng. The newspaper reported that Peng, along with Ministry of Health vice-minister Li Yi, arrived in Dongguan yesterday to attend the opening of an event commemorating World Tuberculosis Day and honoring medical workers who have made contributions in the fight against the disease. Although she has been China's "tuberculosis ambassador" since 2007, Peng Liyuan is better known for her more high-profile roles as a celebrated folk singer, a PLA major general, a CPPCC member, and the wife of vice-president Xi Jinping, who is rumored to be in line to succeed President Hu Jintao.  Despite her visible presence in the media, information about this woman of many talents is difficult to come by: her name is a blocked key word on both Google.cn and Baidu. Links and Sources
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Where do you get your info on blocking? I just searched for Peng Liyuan and had no problems at all. I am puzzled in Beijing.
Our information comes from the results of searches we've performed, as shown in the Baidu screenshot. We've included links to result-less Google.cn and Baidu searches for 彭丽媛. Do you get results for that search term?
To answer your question 彭丽媛 the answer from Google is 719,000 for 彭丽媛. (0.27 seconds)
Can't swear they are all about her - but a fair few probably are. Don't want to make you paranoid but maybe they are really out to get you. ha ha
Perhaps, John. I get 719,000 results on Google.com if I use a proxy; otherwise my connection resets. On Google.cn I get this.
彭丽媛 doesn;t work in Baidu but strangely 丽媛 does and also brings up results for 彭丽媛. Sorry, seems you were at least partly right. Suspect someone is trying to block something else. I'm not smart enough to figure out what,
I'd say 彭丽媛 is what's being filtered. Sensitive word filtering technology behaves in strange ways. (As in that last link, a search for "彭丽媛" in quotes gives results!) It's usually been the case that parts of filtered terms will return results that contain the full term, and news, images, web, and other searches often behave independently (you can still get to Peng's music, for example). Note also that a Baidu search for Peng Liyuan returns a suggested search for 彭丽媛 which returns no results.
Princelings scare the crap out of me. No matter how good a job they do, an alarm bell keeps on going off in the back of my head, screaming "NEPOTISM NEPOTISM". I don't mind that there's a technocrat faction in Chinese elite politics, but why does it have to be ridden with princelings?
oh yeah 彭丽媛 is filtered in Google and Baidu, both returns no results, wonder why they censor the would-be first lady? shouldn't they make her the next spiritual leader succeeding Wen??
彭丽媛，女，山东菏泽郓城人，出生于1962年11月20日，中国著名女高音 歌唱家，中国当代民族声乐代表人，中国第一位民族声乐硕士.
Always makes me smile when I hear the bombastic singing of patriotic songs referred to as 'folk music' - it's a bit of a way from Woodie Guthrie, Bert Jansch and Davey Graham, no? Sure, it's called 民族音乐, but Song Zu Ying blasting her way through doesn't exactly fulfil the image of guys wearing straw hats picking away on an acoustic guitar whilst mumbling their way through "She walked through the fair".
thats the dame who reshuffled shanghai TV, so media get ready in Beijing...