One little girl had the looks. The other had the voice. So in a last-minute move demanded by one of China's highest officials, the two were put together for the Olympic opening ceremony, with one lip-synching "Ode to the Motherland" over the other's singing.
The real singer, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, with her chubby face and crooked baby teeth, wasn't good looking enough for the ceremony, its chief music director told state-owned Beijing Radio.
While ancient cultures usually share a bounty of unique perspectives into the values given to their respect of the individual ... it's interesting to note this exception. China is now striving to be be as PHONEY as the Western decadence it usually reviles?
