Zhang Xiaoyu

Zhang Xiaoyu (simplified Chinese: 张筱雨; traditional Chinese: 張筱雨; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎoyǔ; born June 6, 1985) is a Chinese internet celebrity who has been described as "China's first nude model."[1]

For the athlete, see Zhang Xiaoyu (shot putter). For the footballer, see Zhang Xiaoyu (footballer).
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang.

Early life and education

Zhang attended Beihua University in Jilin City, Jilin, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences in 2007.[2]

Career

She did softcore erotic modeling for METCN.com, an affiliate of MET ART, from 2007 to 2009, and until the Chinese government initiated a crackdown on online erotica at the beginning of 2009, her name was amongst the most searched for queries on the Chinese search engine Baidu, receiving an average of 650,000 searches a day throughout 2008.[3]

The Chinese online game Dàhuà Xuānyuán (Chinese: 大话轩辕) became a hit in December 2009 after the game's producer hired Zhang as its spokesperson, a marketing maneuver that received official disapproval in 2010 as the Chinese government sought to curb the use of "vulgar marketing" by online game companies.[4]

gollark: I honestly *do not understand* why people thought they were better ways to do things than *nice* tools like, say, `cargo`.
gollark: I've had to try and compile some programs using the GNU build tools, and they seem like horrible hacks.
gollark: No, that's quite bad.
gollark: > The correct behavior should be assume the very best about unknown operating systems,I'm not sure I agree with this person. They are insufficiently pessimistic.
gollark: The issue is that Warp has quite a neat combinator-based HTTP handling mechanism like you might use in, say, Haskell, and this generates horrible type errors if you do things wrong.

References
  1. "China's first nude model", Zhang Xiaoyu endorses "Dahua Xuanyuan" news.duowan.com (Chinese) 4 December 2009
  2. Thomas, Neil (12 August 2013). "The branded sex toy business - Zhang Xiaoyu". Danwei.
  3. Zhang Xiaoyu top-ranked human photo search hinews.cn (Chinese) 15 October 2010
  4. Besta Shankar China prohibits indecent promotion of online games Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine International Business Times 8 July 2010
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