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In Chinese cyberspace, a blossoming passion
By Edward Cody (Washington Post)
Updated: 2005-07-29 10:17 Suddenly this summer, Sister
Lotus is all over China, writes Washington Post.
Hotly debated on Chinese-language Web sites, her saucy photos get millions of
hits. National magazines dote on her, and China's television crews are taping
away.
The revealing "S
figure" of Sister Furong dressed in red
[baidu] | Late to catch on, some sociologists warn
that Sister Lotus cannot be good for China's teenagers, others smile and predict
her fame will be fleeting.
Shi Hengxia, known as Sister Lotus, said she has no idea why her Internet
postings have drawn so much attention across China.
But nobody, including Sister Lotus, appears to know what this is all about.
"I think it's crazy," she said in an intervie.
Sister Lotus, who turns 28 on Tuesday, is Shi Hengxia, and comes from a small
town in Shaanxi province.
Over the last few years, she tried and failed to gain admission to Peking
University and then to Tsinghua University, China's most prestigious
institutions of higher learning.
Undaunted, and blessed with a deep reservoir of daring, she posted the story
of her determination on both universities' Web sites.
China has a recent tradition of personal sagas on the Web, including those
from young women chronicling their sex lives in a way that could never get by a
traditional publisher.
But these were different - sincere, maybe naive - and they touched a nerve
among students.
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