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China Hush has published its translation of a Netease interview with Lou Jing (娄婧), the half-black Oriental Angel contestant who was the subject of a lot of online netizen character attacks, most of them extremely bigoted.

The controversy surrounding Lou Jing, the half-black Shanghainese girl who recently appeared on DragonTV's reality show "Let's Go! Oriental Angel" made actually curious about the show. We mean, we were curious about the show before, when we first stumbled upon its auditions at the Channel One mall, but now we actually wanted to check it out.

Perhaps because of China's status as a mostly monocultural giant that's only just opening up the world, the topic of racism in this country is always a landmine-infested warzone. Just asking the question of whether most Chinese people are racist can cause the web to go into conniptions - an example being the Internet fight between China Geek and Hecaitou earlier this year.

Earlier this month, we were walking through the Channel One mall when we came across auditions for a new reality tV series called 加油！东方天使 - roughly translatable into "Let's Go! Oriental Angel."