{"id":164644,"date":"2013-10-29T00:34:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T07:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=164644"},"modified":"2013-10-29T00:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T07:34:45","slug":"china-lights-candle-lou-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/10\/china-lights-candle-lou-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"China Lights a Candle for Lou Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At China Real Time, Chuin-Wei Yap notes <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2013\/10\/29\/china-lights-a-candle-for-lou-reed-aka-lao-li\/\">trending tributes on Sina Weibo to rock musician Lou Reed<\/a><\/strong>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027\">died on Sunday at the age of 71<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The appeal in China of \u201cLao Li\u201d \u2013 or \u201cOld Li\u201d in an affectionate abbreviation of Mr. Reed\u2019s phonetically-transcribed full Chinese name Lu Lide \u2013 comes from a recognition of the breadth of his achievements both in music and on modern culture. Some bloggers flecked, in veiled references, to Mr. Reed\u2019s historical role in overthrowing communism: \u201c(Vaclav) Havel\u2019s idol; Andy Warhol\u2019s comrade-in-arms; an influence on Joy Division, U2, Nirvana and others, the father of pioneering rock music,\u201d one called Left Little Ancestral Curse wrote. Mr. Havel cited Mr. Reed as an inspiration in the anti-communist revolution in eastern Europe in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed to the popular 1996 movie Trainspotting, which featured Reed\u2019s classic \u201cPerfect Day.\u201d But some bloggers noted a more direct connection to Chinese culture as well. Mr. Reed was apparently a practitioner of the Chinese martial art taichi, and some Chinese this week posted photos of him practicing the art during a visit he made to China\u2019s central province of Henan in 2007. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2013\/10\/29\/china-lights-a-candle-for-lou-reed-aka-lao-li\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At China Real Time, Chuin-Wei Yap notes trending tributes on Sina Weibo to rock musician Lou Reed, who died on Sunday at the age of 71. 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