{"id":14523,"date":"2007-09-05T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/05\/theyre-big-but-not-yet-stars-maureen-fan\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T03:55:20","slug":"theyre-big-but-not-yet-stars-maureen-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/theyre-big-but-not-yet-stars-maureen-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Big, But Not Yet Stars &#8211; Maureen Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe Washington Post looks at the band Qian Jin Zu He, composed of four overweight women, to examine the prejudice against the obese in Chinese society:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/PH2007090502539.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/PH2007090502539.jpg','popup','width=228,height=185,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/PH2007090502539-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"123\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ph2007090502539\" \/><\/a>Their success has been modest, but given the powerful discrimination against the obese in China, Xiao said her discovery by a talent agent has been &#8220;like a tree branch saving me in the water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story of precisely how Xiao&#8217;s group came to be is a window onto the challenges of being obese in a country where the ideal form of feminine beauty is delicate, girlish and small-boned. As China has grown more prosperous, the percentage of overweight citizens here has also grown. Still, those who are obese continue to struggle in relative solitude.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/05\/AR2007090502270.html?nav=rss_world\/asia\" target=\"_blank\"> [Full text]<\/a><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span>[Image: Qian Jin Zu He band members, via the Washington Post]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post looks at the band Qian Jin Zu He, composed of four overweight women, to examine the prejudice against the obese in Chinese society: Their success has been modest, but given the powerful discrimination against the obese in China, Xiao said her discovery by a talent agent has been &#8220;like a tree branch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[21,398],"class_list":["post-14523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-society","tag-music","tag-obesity","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>They&#039;re Big, But Not Yet Stars - Maureen Fan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/theyre-big-but-not-yet-stars-maureen-fan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"They&#039;re Big, But Not Yet Stars - Maureen Fan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Washington Post looks at the band Qian Jin Zu He, composed of four overweight women, to examine the prejudice against the obese in Chinese society: Their success has been modest, but given the powerful discrimination against the obese in China, Xiao said her discovery by a talent agent has been &#8220;like a tree branch [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/theyre-big-but-not-yet-stars-maureen-fan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-09-06T03:55:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/PH2007090502539-tm.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/theyre-big-but-not-yet-stars-maureen-fan\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/theyre-big-but-not-yet-stars-maureen-fan\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"They&#8217;re Big, But Not Yet Stars &#8211; 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