Sister Furong is a young woman in Beijing who has somehow become hugely popular on the internet for posting supposedly provocatively posed photos and making somewhat silly egotistical statements about herself. The latest news to come out recently is that China intends to ban her internet presense even though she has not even come close to posing nude or written about sexual exploits like some other notorious Chinese bloggers who were banned from the internet.
I first found out about Sister Furong yesterday in an article talking about her being banished from the web which I reposted in this message in my Asian Divas Yahoo Group.
Here is an excerpt:
Sister Furong started the craze by posting pictures of herself — draped back-down over a stone ball, bent at the knees with her chest thrust out suggestively and in other poses — on Internet bulletin boards of two top Beijing universities to which she had tried but failed to gain entrance.
The shots, and accompanying captions and passages she wrote proclaiming her own beauty and talent, became a campus sensation.
Here is a link to some more pictures of Sister Furong.
Here are some more articles about her:
Hibiscus blooms’ and creates a buzz on the Net
Hush! BBStar Sister Furong is ‘daydreaming’
BBStar Sister Furong debuts in Internet Movie
Ego pays off
She has an officially sanctioned English blog but be warned that it doesn’t come up properly in Internet Explorer (looks fine in Firefox).
While doing research, I came across this amusing blog entry about Sister Furong from this guy in Malaysia. He said that Sister Furong wrote to him and asked him to print out the picture of her lying in the grass and hang it on the wall above his bed.
