More than 80 pictures of China’s top actress Zhang Ziyi sunbathing topless and frolicking on a beach have appeared on the Internet, sending netizens in China wild on Tuesday.
The pictures, taken by a Los Angeles-based paparazzi agency, showed Zhang on the Caribbean island of St Barth’s with her fiance, Israeli investor Vivi Nevo, last Friday.
The star of the Hollywood blockbuster Memoirs of a Geisha was shown taking off her red bikini and lying face down with her derriere exposed.
Zhang was photographed in a red bikini reading a book, doing a bridge and even a splits on the sand.
She then took off her red bikini top and rolled down her bottom as she sun bathed and the photographs captured her lying topless beside her fiance.
Fiance Vivi Nevo was also caught on camera grabbing her bottom and enthusiastically kissing the whole length of her back.
Lianhe Wanbao reported that Chinese Internet forums have been flooded with comments including critiques of her figure, and allegations that “she has forgotten she is Chinese”. Some commented that her “yoga” poses were comical.
It comes just a day after the Chinese government sent out stern warnings to 19 top websites for pornography and vulgarity.
Pornography is banned in China but remains widely available on and off the Internet. Popular Chinese Web portals frequently show sexually explicit pictures and provide links to pornographic websites.
It is unlikely anything other than a fine will be meted out to offenders, Goldkorn said, and the move more likely signifies a need for a quick clean-up ahead of the Chinese Spring Festival, or new year, at the end of this month.
This happened early last year when explicit photos of Hong Kong actor Edison Chen and several female partners performing sex acts circulated online. Chinese authorities arrested or detained nearly a dozen people for circulating the photos.
China has the world’s largest population of Internet users with more than 250 million, and China’s attitude to love and sex has changed markedly since it was denounced as a bourgeois decadence under Mao Zedong, a byproduct of rising prosperity and looser government restrictions on private life.
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Update
Beijing Newspaper Names Zhang Ziyi Most Beautiful Person In China
A leading Beijing newspaper has chosen actress Zhang Ziyi as the most beautiful person in China for 2008.
In a ranking of the top 50 most beautiful people Friday, the Beijing News picked Zhang, whose film credits include “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Rush Hour 2,” and “Memoirs of a Geisha.”
The paper said Zhang’s press conference during the Cannes film festival to raise money for the Sichuan earthquake garnered respect worldwide. The earthquake killed 70,000 people in May.
“I don’t pay a lot of attention to matters of appearance,” she told the newspaper. “Beautiful women are fundamentally independent and confident.”
Cannes best actor winner Tony Leung Chiu-wai came second in the ranking.
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