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Chinese online celebrities: from doggy style to hibiscus hagPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, June 29, 2005 6:36 PM
![]() City Weekend, one of Beijing and Shanghai's free English magazines, just published a story about China's newest online celebrity, a girl who calls herself Furong Jiejie (芙蓉姐姐) or Hibiscus Older Sister (pictured). The China Daily immediately pirate-published the City Weekend story, ensuring a little English language fame for China's newest female blog star. Furong Jiejie writes boring nonsense about herself and publishes photographs of herself in sexually assertive but unrevealing poses. It's difficult to understand why she has become a blog star: perhaps it's because while she is not very attractive, she often talks about her beauty, and poses for photos like a minx. As happened with Mu Zimei (aka Muzi Mei) — the sex blogger who shot to overnight fame after describing publishing a dismissive story about a doggy style tryst with Guangzhou rocker Wang Lei — domain name pirates have registered many variations of Furong Jiejie and are using them to direct web surfers to websites which pretend to offer soft porn films for download (link below). No matter what the reason for her popularity, Hibiscus Sister shot to the top of Baidu's ranking of searches on 'personalities' a few weeks ago, and she is still there. Here then, is Baidu's list of top ten most searched for personalities, and what a collection it is: 1. Furong Jiejie (芙蓉姐姐) 3. Mu Zimei 木子美 5. Zhu Ying Qing Tong 竹影青瞳 6. Guo Jingming 郭敬明 7. Huang Xin 黄薪 8 Mao Zedong 毛泽东 10. Song Ci 宋慈 Links and Sources
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