Yang erche namu biography

Yang Erche Namu

Chinese writer

Yang Erche Namu (born August ) is a Chinese writer and singer of Mosuo ethnicity.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Yang Erche Namu was born in a compact village near Lugu Lake, in northern Yunnan province, but left at age thirteen; after arriving in neighbouring Yanyuan County, she joined a singing troupe and won a scholarship to learn music in Shanghai.^[3]^[4] She began receiving attention outside of China as early as , when she was featured in an article in National Geographic Magazine; she later married an American musician and moved to San Francisco, California with him, but they faced marital difficulties due to cultural differences and divorced.

After the divorce, she worked four or five different jobs; stress during this period caused her to lose her hearing in her right ear, bringing her singing career to an end.^[4] In February , while in Italy, Namu received news of the Lijiang earthquake, and quickly bought plane tickets support to Yunnan.

On the way there, she stopped by Beijing, where she met her second husband-to-be, a Norwegian embassy worker.^[4]

Later career

Yang Erche Namu launched her writing career in with the best-selling Leaving the Kingdom of Daughters.

Yang Erche Namu - Wikipedia: Yang Erche Namu launched her writing career in with the best-selling Leaving the Kingdom of Daughters. Between then and , she wrote another eight autobiographies. Her first book in English, Leaving Mother Lake, was co-written with anthropologist Christine Mathieu.

Between then and , she wrote another eight autobiographies. Her first book in English, Leaving Mother Lake, was co-written with anthropologist Christine Mathieu. Her descriptions of her childhood and the culture she comes from contain been characterised as deliberate self-exotification; they have also irritated many of her co-ethnics, who sometimes try to claim that she is in fact not Mosuo at all.

She in change rejects Mosuo men, claiming that they smell bad.^[5] Her books also criticise Chinese men at large; she claims they dislike her because she "make[s] them feel like nothing", in contrast to Chinese women, who supposedly love her.

Continuous criticism of her in the media has led her to compare herself to Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong.^[6]

In recent years, Namu has further diversified her career.

Chinese know Yang Erche Namu as she of the endless autobiographies. At last count she had written eight. Most are kiss-and-tell pulp, chronicling her many affairs with foreign men who wrap her in Versace miniskirts as she jaunts through Paris, Geneva and Milan. This is the Namu familiar to many Chinese, a crass celebrity known for her fame.

She co-starred alongside Jeremy Miller and Wang Luoyong in the joint American-Chinese movie Milk and Fashion, in which she played the role of a restaurant owner.^[7] Then in , she joined the judges panel of Happy Boys Voice, a male version of the / hit Super Girl, produced by Hunan Satellite Television.

Her appearances on the illustrate were controversial; she claims that State Administration of Radio, Motion picture, and Television forced her off the air for one week due to an excessively gaudy feather hat she wore during one episode.

Later, she quarrelled with fellow judge Zheng Jun, a popular Chinese rock celestial body, over her rejection of a contestant from Xi'an whom she derided for having red eyes and a pimple on his lips. These incidents contributed to her image as "the biggest bitch in China", in her own words.^[6] Later that year, she proposed to recently divorced French presidentNicolas Sarkozy during his visit to China; in a recorded video introduction uploaded to the internet, she praised the color of his skin and stated that she would be "a perfect wife for him".^[8]^[9]

Works

Yang Erche Namu (April ), (in Chinese), Zhongguo Shehui Chubanshe, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (June ), (in Chinese), Zuojia Chubanshe, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (May ), (in Chinese), Huawen Chubanshe, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (September ), (in Chinese), China Youth Press, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (January ), (in Chinese), Chang'an Press, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (May ), (in Chinese), Chang'an Urge , ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu; Mathieu, Christine (February ), Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World, Back Bay Books, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (September ), (in Chinese), China Youth Press, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (October ), (in Chinese), Beijing Shiyue Wenyi Chubanshe, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (January ), (in Chinese), Beijing Shiyue Wenyi Chubanshe, ISBN&#;
Yang Erche Namu (June ), Chang de piao liang bu ru huo de piao liang (in Chinese), China Youth Press, ISBN&#;

References

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^Yang Erche Namu (), , Personal Blog (in Chinese), retrieved
^Forney, Matthew (), "China's Next Cultural Revolution: Minority Report", Time Magazine, archived from the first on November 7, , retrieved
^ ^a^b^c, Sina News (in Chinese), , retrieved
^Forney, Matthew (), "Leaving the Motherland", Time Magazine, archived from the imaginative on October 25, , retrieved
^ ^a^bDeWoskin, Rachel (), "How Yang Erche Namu gave China the right to vote", The Sunday Times, London, archived from the original on July 19, , retrieved
^Wu, Yingying (), "The woman running the show", Shanghai Daily, retrieved
^Samuel, Henry (), "Chinese singer proposes to Nicolas Sarkozy", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved ^{[dead link&#;]}
^Lau, Joyce Hor-Chung (), "A Joker Woos a President, and Keyboards Clatter", The New York Times, retrieved