Yang Erche Namu

Yang Erche Namu

Chinese
t=楊二車娜姆
s=杨二车娜姆
p=Yáng Èrchē Nàmŭ

Yang Erche Namu (born August 1966) is a Chinese writer and singer of Mosuo ethnicity. [cite news|url=http://re.icxo.com/htmlnews/2006/10/19/957494_1.htm|title=杨二车娜姆访谈：“失恋了就去盖房子”|work=China Real Estate Web|quote=４０岁，感觉到老的痕迹吗？|language=Chinese] [cite web|url=http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4ce439b101000abn.html|title=昨天我当“寿星”(Yesterday I became elderly)|publisher=Personal blog|author=Yang Erche Namu|date=2007-08-27|accessdate=2007-12-03|language=Chinese]

Early life

Yang Erche Namu was born in a small 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 study music in Shanghai. [cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/china_cul_rev/minorities.html|work=Time Magazine|title=China's Next Cultural Revolution: Minority Report|last=Forney|first=Matthew|accessdate=2007-11-30|date=2002-11-07] She began receiving attention outside of China as early as 1991, when she was featured in an article in "National Geographic Magazine"; she later married a "National Geographic" photographer 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.cite news|date=2004-06-15|accessdate=2007-12-01|title=杨二车娜姆：没逃过七年之痒 (Yang Erche Namu: Hasn't escaped the seven-year itch)|language=Chinese|work=Sina News|url=http://eladies.sina.com.cn/2004-06-15/97424.html] In February 1996, while in Italy, Namu received news of the Lijiang earthquake, and quickly bought plane tickets back to Yunnan. On the way there, she stopped by Beijing, where she met her second husband-to-be, a Norwegian embassy worker.

Later career

Yang Erche Namu launched her writing career in 1997 with the best-selling "Leaving the Kingdom of Daughters". Between then and 2003, 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 have 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 turn rejects Mosuo men, claiming that they smell bad. [cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501031103-526551,00.html|work=Time Magazine|title=Leaving the Motherland|last=Forney|first=Matthew|date=2003-10-23|accessdate=2007-11-30] Her books also criticise Chinese men at large; she claims they hate 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.cite news|title=How Yang Erche Namu gave China the right to vote|last=DeWoskin|first=Rachel|authorlink=Rachel DeWoskin|date=2007-11-04|accessdate=2007-12-02|work=The Sunday Times|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2773123.ece]

In recent years, Namu has further diversified her career. She co-starred alongside Jeremy Miller and Wang Luoyong in the 2005 joint American-Chinese movie "Milk and Fashion", in which she played the role of a restaurant owner. [cite news|url=http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/features/userobject1ai1678964.html|work=Shanghai Daily|date=2005-11-28|accessdate=2007-12-02|title=The woman running the show|last=Wu|first=Yingying] Then in 2007, she joined the judges panel of "Happy Boys Voice", a male version of the 2005/2006 hit "Super Girl", produced by Hunan Satellite Television. Her appearances on the show were controversial; she claims that State Administration of Radio, Film, 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 star, 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. Later that year, she proposed to recently-divorced French president Nicolas 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". [cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=5AZZDNMZHMOAXQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/11/29/wproposal129.xml|date=2007-11-29|accessdate=2007-11-30|title=Chinese singer proposes to Nicolas Sarkozy|work=The Daily Telegraph|last=Samuel|first=Henry]

Works

*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=走出女儿国|publisher=Zhongguo Shehui Chubanshe|date=April 1997|isbn=7800885232|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=女人品—闻香识女人|publisher=Zuojia Chubanshe|date=June 1999|isbn=7506317443|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=女人游—凤眼看天下|publisher=Huawen Chubanshe|date=May 2001|isbn=7801750810|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=女人梦—烟雨是天涯|publisher=Zhongguo Qingnian Chubanshe|date=September 2002|isbn=7500648251|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=中國紅遇見挪威藍|publisher=Chang'an Chubanshe|date=January 2003|isbn=7801750799|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=你也可以|publisher=Chang'an Chubanshe|date=May 2003|isbn=7801750837|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|coauthors=Christine Mathieu|title=Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World|date=February 2004|publisher=Back Bay Books|isbn=0316735493|language=English
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=7年之痒—中国红别了挪威蓝|publisher=Zhongguo Qingnian Chubanshe|date=September 2004|id=ISBN 750065927X|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=一会儿就回来——我的社交心得|publisher=Beijing Shiyue Wenyi Chubanshe|date=October 2004|isbn=7530207504|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=暗香—中国女人的性感与传情|publisher=Beijing Shiyue Wenyi Chubanshe|date=January 2005|isbn=7530207628|language=Chinese
*cite book|author=Yang Erche Namu|title=长得漂亮不如活得漂亮|publisher=Zhongguo Qingnian Chubanshe|date=June 2006|isbn=7500665709|language=Chinese

References

Further reading

*cite magazine|journal=National Geographic|volume=180|pages=112|title=Riding the tiger of ambition to a new life|date=1991

External links

* [http://blog.sina.com.cn/yrcnm Personal blog] (in Chinese)
* [http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_537d53a7010009ku.html Photographs of her villa near Lugu Lake] (in Chinese)


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