Mu Mu's blog draws some 10,000 visitors a day - far more than either of her
predecessors.
Surprisingly, her confessional blogs are still comparatively rare in China due
to censorship. The Chinese love to tease Americans with a myth about western
culture: "Chinese don't talk about sex, but do it. Americans don't do it, but
love to talk about it."
Typical of Cantonese skepticism, critics are saying she does not show her face
because it looks like 10 Kilometers of bad Chinese roads and who could begin to
look a girl adoring in the face and say "Mu Mu" ("wood, wood" in English)
without eventually falling out? But, some would argue, who would be looking at
her face?
In a cultural and political environment that disdains sexual expression - and
even occasionally criminally punishes it - it is endearing to see someone like
Mu Mu bringing 'power to the people' in Communist China.
Yet one must hope that Mu Mu desire to express herself does not land her on the
worng side of the authorities in what remains a prudish China.
Copyright 2006, Asian Sirens, Asian Sex Gazette.
