If you arrived here by curiously Googling for Mu Zi Mei after reading about her in the New York Times, or Straights Times, or the Guardian:
Welcome!
At Danwei you will find all you need to wade your way through the shallows of the Chinese media business in the last few months of 2003.
Everything about Mu Zi Mei (or Mu Zimei or muzimei) is archived here, or you can click on the ‘Mu Zi Mei’ category on the left.
Ridiculous real estate ads are here, stuff about Bill Clinton is here and intellectual property dubiousness is here. Saucy stuff about glossy magazines is here; less saucy stuff about newspapers is here. Click here for recommended links. Transsexuals are here.
If none of that interests you, take a look at this:
It’s the cover image from a book of images by Shenzhen photographer Yang Yong, published by Timezone 8: whom you can find here. You can buy the book there too.
UPDATE: It seems that the Guardian article about Mu Zi Mei hasn’t been published yet. On November 27, Chinese blogger Topku posted an item about the progress of a a Guardian journalist locating Mu Zi Mei for an interview. It is now November 30. Let’s see how long to the Guardian’s interview-to-print process takes.