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She is 86% Swedish and 14% from Shanghai but Shanghai is not China so I don't think she is the average Chinese girl consumer. She is what we call in French, Dan, a "chipie".
The congrats, I shall give you is even in non-China business blogs you make the Top 3, impressive!

More importantly: is that you in the pic? If not, you'd likely move straight (presuming her list isn't in reverse order) to the top.

Dan, could be just my ISP but that site appears to be blocked out here in the wild, wild, east. Although I did manage to read it via, ahem...

Ouch, but I totally disagree with her assessment of blogs. Yellowwings was done by a good friend of mine and was nothing but (almost)bohemian mid-level Brit humour - aimed at Brits and those that got it. Although most people I talked too - me being a Brit - 'got it' I don't think it's fair (and Meursault would hate me for defending him) that she could put it down because she didn't get any of his 'jokes'. I don't think anyone would ever expect her to get it. And as for not getting the excellent Hummannaught - I just don't get that, she's just not very... ah, forget it PiPi.

Regardless of how she tries to cover up her true 'ambitions', she's always been a bit shallow. I first read her blog many month ago - didn't go back. Thank goodness she never read my blog. I've left the URL out intentionally.

China and I,

She "feels" 86% Swedish and 14% Chinese. She's from Sweden. I was a bit surprised/elated, I must admit.

That's why I called her Worldly, and there are going to be more people like her and I have to believe it is people like her helping set trends in places like China AND Sweden.

Molly B.,

Not me. Whew.

PiPi,

I never really got Yellowwings either and I love Brit humor and think the movie Titanic was middling.

I have a teenage daughter so what you call shallow, I call "fun." Shanghai Shopgirl is meant to appeal to young women. Shanghai Shopgirl is herself far too bright to be called shallow. Trust me on that.

I'm a Hummannaught fan (I had it in the blogroll but when Ryan started focusing on his Lost Laowai blog, I switched to that) also. Shanghai Shopgirl and the Hummannaught had a blog war a few months ago, hence the animosity. At the time, I warned Ryan (based on my having a teenage daughter) that there would be no way he could prevail. Her dissing him now is further proof of that.

HAHA LOL LOL LOLZ.

THe big time China Law blog mentioning Shopgirl on teh frontz page. LOL LOL LOL! Let's see Danwei (the CIA front) do that.

Let me guess, you are "old bald guy" on her comments?

I like reading her blog, I think she's smart,just a bit too much of pure shallow consumerism for me. But I'm not hating on her,I like her. I can see how you like her too, because she must remind you of your daughter or something.

You guys should have seen the ruckus that she raised awhile back, it was really laugh out funny. HAHA. Pure chaotic madness, I love it.

what ruckus?

Soviet Bastard Thug (a/k/a Soviet Scientist, Soviet Bastard, Soviet Thug, and Soviet Dude),

Everything is the front page.

I am not "old bald guy" on the comments; I have all my hair.

She is actually quite different from my teenage daughter, but I can see similarities with my ten year old.

I'm for chaotic madness in small doses. To what incident are you referring?

Shopgirl,

Yeah, what ruckus?

Dan - "...but I can see similarities with my ten year old." I can see similarities with many 10 year olds, but who am I to judge(jk) - although I think that's more unfair on 10 year olds.

As for chaotic madness - we just call it life here in China :-)

Shopgirl, suggest you do a story on Shanghai's art scene. Take a trip down to Tai Kang Lu. I can give you some names of persons to interview.

I meant in terms of flashy and outgoing and almost deliberately outrageous personality. My eldest plays basketball. My ten year old says she will be an "actress slash writer slash dancer" when she grows up. I did NOT mean to imply that Shopgirl is like a ten year old. In fact, if you read her most recent post you will see what I have known all along -- that much of her blog is just a persona. Look at all the languages she speaks and look at her choice of favorite blogs and even look at how she held her own with the Humannaught. There is substance there, she is just having fun on top of that and I do not begrudge fun in the young.

Todd Platek,

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One can be smart, bright, witty - and shallow, like the Bright Young Things. From my quick glances, I wasn't enthralled by SS - her blog seems as deep as a Korean soap opera. I certainly don't think it merits a Straussian search for hidden meaning.

I wouldn't use her blog for any indication of Chinese trends - I think popular Chinese language blogs would be much better guides.

I also wonder what her readership's demographics are - it might be different than some expect, but of course, on the web it's impossible to know.

Finally, if she wants attention, she's doing a good job - and blogging is a better choice for her then flickr.

Tony,

Youth is a pardonable offense.

I agree with you regarding her not being a leading indicator of Chinese trends, but a Euro-Asia combo. A sort of early adapter for the fashion world.

Geez Dan you must be aging fast...or maybe you have been a lawyer too long? You wrote "There is substance there, she is just having fun on top of that and I do not begrudge fun in the young."

So what are you saying? That you DO begrudge fun in those of us who are um...shall we say...not so young?

Derek,

1. I do not think I am aging any faster than anyone else, though seeing as how I just spent my morning in Renton and Kent, Washington, that is quite possible.

2. I do begrudge fun in those of us who are "um....shall we say...not so young." We must work and work some more.

@CLB - "Youth is a pardonable offense."

I'd like to see the statute on that . . . .

FOARP,

The technical answer is that every country of which I am aware treats juveniles (however defined), differently than adults. I think most parents know this "statute" strictly by instinct.

not dumb but shallow, from a middle class family. shop girl. id say 50% swedish 50% shanghainess

daisy,

1. Do you really think her blog fully encompasses her? If so, you are taking it more seriously than she herself takes it.

2. Any allowance for youth?