{"id":1008,"date":"2005-03-21T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T03:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2005-03-21T11:41:41","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T03:41:41","slug":"chinas_50_most_beautiful_peopl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/newspapers\/chinas_50_most_beautiful_peopl.php","title":{"rendered":"China’s 50 Most Beautiful People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Beijing News<\/i> borrows a picture of Maggie Cheung from Cosmo<\/i> for the cover of today’s Entertainment insert, “50 Most Beautiful People in China”. Ms. Cheung takes the top spot, with Takeshi Kaneshiro, Little S, Zhang Ziyi, and Liu Ye rounding out the top five in this exercise that is a conscious imitation of People<\/i> magazine’s yearly rundown.<\/p>\n

Unlike People<\/i>, this collection namechecks Kant and Hegel for its standard of beauty, allowing the participation of some famous faces not usually associated with physical attractiveness (Liu Xiang, #8, and Jaycee Chan, #42). Apart from those few unexpected inclusions, it’s mostly by-the-numbers entertainment industry celebrities, with a token author (Han Han, #21) and Go player (Chang Hao, #35).<\/p>\n

Women occupy 32 of the 50 slots, and a majority of those are round-eyed starlets. Li Bingbing (#17) soundly defeats Fan Bingbing (#40), hopefully ending that debate. Brigitte Lin, who has been retired and out of the public eye for a decade, comes in at number 50, just barely beating out Teresa Teng. Also interesting are some of the names left off the list – Karen Mok, who has won awards for style, and Hu Bing, everyone’s favorite male model, are nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

While there doesn’t currently seem to be an index page up, this search<\/a> [note: no longer working] will give you results for the original articles. Check out the rest of this post for the full list with links to photo galleries so you can judge for yourself.<\/p>\n


\nNames by which the celebrities are known in English have been included whenever possible. Additions or corrections can be sent to joel at danwei dot org<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Maggie Cheung<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Takeshi Kaneshiro<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Little S<\/a>, television personality<\/li>\n
  4. Zhang Ziyi<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Liu Ye<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Andy Lau<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Xu Jinglei<\/a>, actress, director<\/li>\n
  8. Liu Xiang<\/a>, track star<\/li>\n
  9. Angela Chang<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Zhang Jingchu<\/a>, star of Peacock<\/i><\/li>\n
  11. Tony Leung<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Karena Lam<\/a> (link corrected<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  13. Liu Yifei<\/a>, the next Little Dragon Girl<\/li>\n
  14. Daniel Wu<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Shu Qi<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Rene Liu<\/a>, the good thief from A World Without Thieves<\/i><\/li>\n
  17. Li Bingbing<\/a>, the bad thief from A World Without Thieves<\/i><\/li>\n
  18. Faye Wong<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Huang Xiaoming<\/a>, to play opposite #13<\/li>\n
  20. Zhang Zhen<\/a>, from 2046<\/i><\/li>\n
  21. Han Han<\/a>, post-80s author and racecar driver<\/li>\n
  22. Fan Xiaoxuan<\/a>, singer (Mavis Fan)<\/li>\n
  23. Zhou Xun<\/a>, hot young actress, often paired with #24<\/li>\n
  24. Chen Kun<\/a>, hot young actor, often paired with #23<\/li>\n
  25. Cecilia Cheung<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Lin Zhiling<\/a>, model<\/li>\n
  27. Stephen Chow<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. Huang Shengyi<\/a>, starlet introduced in #27’s Kung Fu Hustle<\/i><\/li>\n
  29. Jiang Wen<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. Twins<\/a>, girl duo, but it would be unfair to leave out the ugly one<\/li>\n
  31. Wilson Chan<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. Jay Chou<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. Sun Li<\/a>, TV actress<\/li>\n
  34. Jiang Qinqin<\/a>, the “Tear Queen”<\/li>\n
  35. Chang Hao<\/a>, chessmaster<\/li>\n
  36. Anthony Wong<\/a>, passionate singer<\/li>\n
  37. Angelica Lee<\/a>, the young one in 20, 30, 40<\/i><\/li>\n
  38. Gong Li<\/a><\/li>\n
  39. Gao Yuanyuan<\/a>, wide-eyed actress<\/li>\n
  40. Fan Bingbing<\/a><\/li>\n
  41. Shao Lihua<\/a>, the face of the Spring Festival’s Thousand-hand Guanyin<\/i><\/li>\n
  42. Vicki Zhao<\/a><\/li>\n
  43. Jaycee Chan<\/a>, Jackie Chan’s boy<\/li>\n
  44. Liu Xiaoqing<\/a>, recently revived 80s actress<\/li>\n
  45. Charlie Yeung<\/a>, actress and UN Education Ambassador<\/li>\n
  46. Shirley Jiang Peilin<\/a>, model<\/li>\n
  47. Joe Cheng<\/a>, actor on Meteor Garden<\/i> and other teen soaps<\/li>\n
  48. Sheren Tang<\/a><\/li>\n
  49. Mayday<\/a>, boy band with five interchangeable members<\/li>\n
  50. Brigette Lin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Beijing News<\/i> borrows a picture of Maggie Cheung from Cosmo<\/i> for the cover of today’s Entertainment insert, “50 Most Beautiful People in China”. Ms. Cheung takes the top spot, with Takeshi Kaneshiro, Little S, Zhang Ziyi, and Liu Ye rounding out the top five in this exercise that is a conscious imitation of People<\/i> magazine’s yearly rundown.<\/p>\n

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