Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Beijing internet star makes it to CNN

Su Fei in action
"Sexy Beijing" the TV-show launched by Danwei, starring Su Fei, has made it to CNN.
But at its heart, her Internet TV show "Sexy Beijing" offers a lighthearted peek into daily life in China's capital, with Loewenberg, who writes and edits the show, interviewing the city's people on various topics.
Nice to see the blurring borders between new and old media. Here and here some more reports on the internet.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry but this is anything but good news. Danwei is a site run by poeple who blur job advertisements with summarizing of articles translated by Chinese staff but credited to non-Chinese. The site might be better than English-language teachers writing blogs about "the new China" but only rarely.

For its part, "Sexy Beijing" is often insulting to Beijing residents, with its approach meant to make fun of how different Chinese really are from the rest of "us".

For CNN to cover it shows how much entertainment about China has supplanted education about China.