Witnessing time共同成长学案

牛津译林版  选修九  Unit 2

见仁见智

Chinese show business rarely produces idols. Sure, there are the dozen or so movie actors who can carry a film, and the odd rocker who fills a stadium. But seldom does a face on China’s small screen really stand out.

Which helps explain how a 21-year-old Sichuanese music student named Li Yuchun has become one of the most popular figures in China? In August, Li won a televised American Idol—like singing contest produced by Hunan Province’s Entertainment Channel and bearing its own excellent name Super Girl’s Voice. The show drew the largest audience in the history of Chinese television. As the competition narrowed, the media covered it like a war. By the time the finale aired, some 400 million people were tuning in.