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Official's kin says no extravagance
By Dong Zhen |
September 27, 2011, Tuesday
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THE daughter of a government official at the center of an online storm following accusations of an extravagant lifestyle has defended herself, claiming people had mistaken some fake bags she owned as authentic luxury items.
You Yixi, a 21-year-old senior college student, said the pair of so-called designer bags she was seen carrying in one of the controversial photos that became an online sensation, were in fact cheap knockoffs of classic Hermes and LV designs. They were bought online for 80 yuan (US$12.50) and 91.2 yuan each.
"I did not mean to show off the luxury bags in the photos I posted online. As any normal girl, I only wanted to look pretty and did not expect people would take those bags for genuine ones," she told the City Evening News, a Chinese newspaper, in an interview.
She also provided trade records with two sellers on taobao.com dated July.
A Shanghai Daily reporter yesterday browsed through the sales proposals described by the two brand names on taobao.com, China's leading online shopping platform, and discovered that the cheapest products available were priced at least 1,000 yuan.
Great pressure
The girl said she had been under great pressure since the weekend when people started to question the source of her wealth online and suspect her father of corruption. She said she had always been living thriftily and worked part-time as a Latin dance teacher to make some pocket money.
You Chenghua, vice director of Jinping County in southeast China's less developed Guizhou Province, agreed with his daughter. He said the family gave her 800 yuan each month regularly to support her college life and only provided her no more than 200 yuan randomly each time as pocket money. He confirmed that he knew of his daughter's online purchase of the two bags.
The official, who supervises several sectors of the county departments, including land planning, construction and housing funds, was a second target of online suspicion. The row began after some web bloggers exposed her micro-blog articles and photos as well as her identity.
Despite the girl's defense, some netizens insisted on questioning her yesterday by exposing more of her blog entries that she had since deleted. They alleged the handbags were not the only evidence to support their suspicion, pointing to her published entries that were apparently meant to show off details of her expensive lifestyle.
"We are not rich as some people now assume and our family has no so-called wealth to show off. My daughter is a micro-blogging fan but she definitely has no intention to boast of wealth," the official reportedly said.
You Yixi, a 21-year-old senior college student, said the pair of so-called designer bags she was seen carrying in one of the controversial photos that became an online sensation, were in fact cheap knockoffs of classic Hermes and LV designs. They were bought online for 80 yuan (US$12.50) and 91.2 yuan each.
"I did not mean to show off the luxury bags in the photos I posted online. As any normal girl, I only wanted to look pretty and did not expect people would take those bags for genuine ones," she told the City Evening News, a Chinese newspaper, in an interview.
She also provided trade records with two sellers on taobao.com dated July.
A Shanghai Daily reporter yesterday browsed through the sales proposals described by the two brand names on taobao.com, China's leading online shopping platform, and discovered that the cheapest products available were priced at least 1,000 yuan.
Great pressure
The girl said she had been under great pressure since the weekend when people started to question the source of her wealth online and suspect her father of corruption. She said she had always been living thriftily and worked part-time as a Latin dance teacher to make some pocket money.
You Chenghua, vice director of Jinping County in southeast China's less developed Guizhou Province, agreed with his daughter. He said the family gave her 800 yuan each month regularly to support her college life and only provided her no more than 200 yuan randomly each time as pocket money. He confirmed that he knew of his daughter's online purchase of the two bags.
The official, who supervises several sectors of the county departments, including land planning, construction and housing funds, was a second target of online suspicion. The row began after some web bloggers exposed her micro-blog articles and photos as well as her identity.
Despite the girl's defense, some netizens insisted on questioning her yesterday by exposing more of her blog entries that she had since deleted. They alleged the handbags were not the only evidence to support their suspicion, pointing to her published entries that were apparently meant to show off details of her expensive lifestyle.
"We are not rich as some people now assume and our family has no so-called wealth to show off. My daughter is a micro-blogging fan but she definitely has no intention to boast of wealth," the official reportedly said.
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