A Year of Power and Leadership Transition
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A Year of Power and Leadership Transition
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The Language Information Sciences Research Centre (LISRC) of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has released the 8th Annual Pan-Chinese Celebrity Rosters for 2007. This year’s rosters mark a transition of power and leadership around the world.
The rosters consist of regional rankings of celebrities gaining the most media exposure in the cities of Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei, as well as a Pan-Chinese ranking covering celebrities appearing in the Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei rosters. The results are based on accumulative exposure from the bi-weekly rosters compiled throughout 2007.
The Pan-Chinese roster (column A) has accommodated 21 celebrities this year, which is about a 20% drop compared with last year’s. Of the 21 identities, political figures have occupied 18. This year’s Pan-Chinese roster is most remarkable for its highlighting of changes in global leadership.
The focus on various Chinese-speaking communities also varied considerably. Ma Ying-jeou, Hu Jintao, Chen Shui-bian, and George W. Bush stand high in the Pan-Chinese roster, while Hu, Chen and Bush make it onto all the individual Hong Kong,
Sports figures are less prominent this year, despite the approaching Beijing Olympics, though the seemingly invincible
Looking at the individual regional rosters (columns B to E), Hong Kong and
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The Annual Celebrity Roster list is in the Appendix, and full details can be found at http://www.livac.org/celebrity/.
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Appendix:
Table 1: Annual Celebrity Roster 2007
| A | B | C | D | E |
Rank | Pan-Chinese (21) | (Top 25) | (Top 25) | (Top 25) | (Top 25) |
1 | Ma Ying-jeou | Donald Tsang | Ma Ying-jeou | Hu Jintao | Liu Xiang |
2 | Hu Jintao | Anson Chan | Wang Chien-ming | Wen Jiabao | |
3 | Chen Shui-bian | Regina Ip Lau Shuk-yee | Hsieh Chang-ting | George W. Bush | Yi Jianlian |
4 | George W. Bush | Chen Shui-bian | Chen Shui-bian | Jia Qinglin | Xi Jinping |
5 | Wen Jiabao | Andy Lau | Su Tseng-chang | Fang Yonggang | George W. Bush |
6 | | | Wang Jin-pyng | Liu Xianlin | Ding Junhui |
7 | Yi Jianlian | George W. Bush | George W. Bush | Yang Jiechi | Han Zheng |
8 | Vladimir Putin | Hu Jintao | Wang You-Theng | Jiang Zemin | Hu Jintao |
9 | Shinzo Abe | Wen Jiabao | Wang Ling-lin | Wu Bangguo | Marika Domanski-Lyfors |
10 | Xi Jinping | Ma Ying-jeou | Ang Lee | Yang Shangkun | Lebron James |
11 | Nicolas Sarkozy | Alan Leong | You Shi-kun | Mao Zedong | Vladimir Putin |
12 | Tony Blair | Tsui Po-ko | Wu Poh-hsiung | Ye Jianying | Sun Xiang |
13 | Pervez Musharraf | David Beckham | Tsao Chin-hui | Vladimir Putin | Sun Haiping |
14 | Lien Chan | Antonio Mereno Dominguez | Aska Yang | Zeng Peiyan | Lin Dan |
15 | Zeng Qinghong | Cristiano Ronaldo | Lee Teng-hui | Liu Xiang | Fernando Alonso |
16 | Gordon Brown | Prince William | Hu Jintao | Shinzo Abe | Zhu Jun |
17 | Li Zhaoxing | Shinzo Abe | Vincent Siew (Hsiao Wan-chang) | Liu Ningyi | Zhu Guanghu |
18 | Yasuo Fukuda | Paul Morris | Annette Lu Hsiu-lien | Bo Yibo | Shinzo Abe |
19 | Banazir Bhutto | Nina Kung | Lien Chan | Wu Yi | Roger Federer |
20 | Nawaz Sharif | Kate Middleton | Barry Bonds | Deng Xiaoping | David Beckham |
21 | Jenna Bush | Ao Man-long | Jay Chou | Zhao Puchu | Li Na |
22 |
| Joey Yung | Chiang Kai-shek | Tony Blair | Ma Liangxing |
23 |
| Thaksin Shinawatra | Kuo Hong-Chih | Li Zhaoxing | Steve Francis |
24 |
| | Dalai Lama | Wang Rui | Peng Shuai |
25 |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | Hsu Wei-lun | Zeng Qinghong | Lewis Hamilton |
Table 2: Distribution of local and non-local celebrities in regional rosters (%)
Region | Local | Chinese | Non-Chinese | Total |
| 40 | 56 | 44 | 100 |
| 84 | 92 | 8 | 100 |
| 80 | 84 | 16 | 100 |
| 28 | 60 | 40 | 100 |