Muzi Mei
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Guangzhou
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, People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
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, who became a notorious household name in China in late 2003. Her blog contained frank descriptions of her sexual encounters with various men, which is believed to be a first for China.
Her legal name is Li Li (李丽 Lǐ Lì) -- note that "Muzi" (木子) becomes "Li" (李) when the characters are arranged vertically, and "Mei" (美) and "Li" (丽) are synonyms (both mean "beautiful").
In 2003 she was the topic of heated discussion and controversy in print media, bulletin boards and Internet chatrooms across China, and was even mentioned in stories in the New York Times, TIME
Time
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(December 12, 2005, European edition. Vol. 166, No. 24, page 31) and Washington Post and other international media. Her name was often mentioned together with Tang Jiali
Tang Jiali
Tang Jiali is a Chinese dancer and model who became a celebrity and household name in the People's Republic of China in 2003 by being the first woman to sell books of nude artistic photographs of herself since the lifting of many of the previous restrictions on distribution and sale of such...
, a dancer who was the first to publish a book of nude artistic photographs of herself. This reflected a partial liberalization of restrictions on sexual material and nudity in Chinese publications beginning in 2003.
Portions of her blog have now been translated into French
French language
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and published as a book with the title Journal sexuel d'une jeune Chinoise sur le net (Éditions Albin Michel
Éditions Albin Michel
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, 2005, ISBN 2-226-15980-0). A German translation is published as Mein intimes Tagebuch (Aufbau-Verlag, Jan. 2007, ISBN 3-7466-2306-5).
Muzi Mei was featured in an article in the December 12, 2005 issue of Time Magazine entitled "Sex, Please—We're Young and Chinese".
Bokee.com has hired her to promote the concept of blog
Blog
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ging. She has shifted to podcasting
Podcasting
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. "One recent podcast was an hour-long sound track of an amorous encounter, starting with 'Please come in' and finishing in climactic groans, panting and shrieking. It gets about 10,000 visits a day."
External links
- http://www.danwei.org/archives/000599.html
- http://www.danwei.org/archives/000785.html
- http://www.danwei.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=muzi+mei
- Muzi Mei blog
- Muzi Mei blog (translated to English with Google)
- Some versions of her blog stored through wayback machine