[photopress:IT_Brigitte_Ling.jpg,full,alignright]This blog just misses out on the list of the most popular blogs in China. Damn and blast.
The most popular blog entries — the ones that have the most visits — so far this year on Sina blog are about celebrities.
The champion, with over 980,000 hits, is a short entry written by 25-year-old model and singer, Wei Jiaqing, who gained her national recognition after participating in the 2006 Super Girl singing competition. Not that the writer is an expert but I do not think she won.
In the entry, she told her fans that she already ended a contract with the company that managed the Super Girl. Her knowledge of matters technical means that she will not, as matters stand, be writing for China Economic Review.
Among the eight blog articles that have been viewed for more than 500,000 times, six fall into the paparazzi and celebrity journal categories, written by celebrities themselves or by bloggers specializing in star tales.
Sina hosts perhaps the largest number of celebrity blogs in China,
In one of the popular articles, which is from a paparazzi site, the blogger recounted the love story between famous Taiwanese actress Lin Qingxia (Brigitte Lin) and her three lovers. The entry is full of detailed anecdotes and old pictures, demonstrating the blogger’s rich knowledge. Which sorts of leaves us out of the picture although looking at the pictures of Brigitte Lin, seen here, we wish it could be otherwise.
The two non-paparazzi entries that reached the 500,000-hit mark concern nothing serious, either.
One of them is about China National Geography magazine’s project of searching for people with peculiar family names in China.
The other, on Bulldog, a blog site carrying more serious discussions about politics, culture and economy, only generated five-digit hit.s
From which was can assume that as much as the Internet has become an important political forum for Chinese public, it is an even more powerful entertainment medium.
A large number of Internet users in their teens and twenties, who are dedicated followers of the celebrity culture. Perhaps we should create our own celebritaries. Perhaps not.
Source: China in Transition