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Article: Band Hits Sour Note in China; Group's Appeal Shows Rift Between Culture, Party
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 10, 2002
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Sky Wang joined thousands of women and girls on a recent Saturday
to mob four stars from Taiwan whose boy band and soap opera have
taken China by storm. The coltish 20-year-old advertising agency
employee rose at 5 a.m. to greet the rockers as they arrived at a
Shanghai airport. Screaming and singing in a day-long pursuit of her
idols in the F4 group, she returned home at 2 the next morning, after
staking out their hotel for a final glimpse.
Along the way, Wang recalled, she went "totally crazy" several
times, saw frenzied fans crush a live rabbit brought as a present for
one of the stars, touched her favorite singer and -- her big triumph -
- succeeded in tossing him a pair of sunglasses. ...