BEIJING, July 4 -- China's newest online celebrity, who calls herself Sister Hibiscus, has starred in a five-minute film in Beijing recently.  

     The script was said to be tailored for Sister Hibiscus and the short film would only be shown on the Internet and mobile phones, said Chen Weiming, the producer of the film.

    Like Mu Zimei, the sultry and sensational female blog star, 28-year-old Sister Hibiscus has quietly captured the spotlight with her sensuous photos and cocky statements.

    Sister Hibiscus uploaded photos and brief diary entries onto Qinghua University and Beijing University’s BBS at the start of the year. She described herself as bold and self confident in her Web logs with some saying, “I’m pure and noble (this is how my classmates describe me, which isn’t my fault). My sexy appearance and purity brings me a lot of attention wherever I go.”

    As her popularity grows, Sister Hibiscus has been getting more confident. She tells netizens she is now the focus of the world. “My life is now so annoying. All the time I am the center of attention. Why do men look at me eagerly? I have no place to hide.”

    She has become the center of constant online debate ever since with netizens heaping her with praise and scorn. Most believe that Sister Hibiscus is brave. Others have called her “a pioneer in anti-intellectualism.” As media platforms are controlled by so-called “elites,” the public tends to go to the other extreme and create heroes who epitomize the opposite of all academic and aesthetic norms.

    According to Sister Hibiscus, the original idea was just to set up a BBS posting to expose her natural beauty and grace and to find a good lover. She once worked as an editor for an electronic publisher, but now she would try a career as a performer.