中国成瘾使我们电视节目受欢迎的消遣.doc

Chinese addiction makes US TV shows a popular pastime Author：Linda Chen?? Source：Sino-US.com??Update Time：2013-05-26 ?? What does the May Sweep, the end of the season of the US TV shows mean to the Chinese? Believe it or not, it might just push some people over the cusp of the abyss that is boredom because they are faced once again with the question, “what am I going to do without Meiju (美剧 American TV show)?” These fans of the American TV shows are called Meijumi (美剧迷)?in Chinese. How many of them are there? Well, no one knows the exact number. But here is an indication. On Baidu Post Bar, or Baifu Tieba(百度贴吧), the largest Chinese online communication platform, there is a Meiju Bar, which has more than 24 million active accounts and over 3.3 million posts per month as of May 2013. If one account represents one person, then that is about 18% of China’s population, matching that of the entire population of Australia. A collage of some of the most popular US TV shows in China based on our survey. Photo: For the diehard fans, it is a serious problem when there is a shortage of shows that they can follow. “Meiju is like an addiction for me,” said a university student from Beijing Language and Culture University at Beijing’s Central Perk coffee house. “I watch four shows every week,” she said, “and then I read all the reviews in English. I discuss it with other fans online. Sometimes I write my own review if I feel like it. Four shows every week, that takes up a big chunk of my spare time. Its part of my life. You can imagine how hard it will be for me to get used to a life without it.” Another fan at the coffee house, which is a gathering place for fans of the hit American sit-com Friends, said American TV shows to her is what dinosaur is to Ross. “I can’t get enough of it.” she said. So imagine Ross deprived of dinosaurs, that must be how the many Chinese Meijumis feel this time of year. In an online survey conducted by , the majority of the respondents identify them