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By Jeremy Lovell
LONDON (Reuters) - Li Yuchun, a music student who won China's equivalent of "American Idol", is still baffled by the change her superstar status has brought.
The 21-year-old tomboy from Sichuan was catapulted from obscurity last August after winning "Super Girls," the hugely popular televised pop talent contest.
An audience estimated at up to 400 million people tuned in to the three-hour final, and 3.5 million voted for Li by text.
"There is a very big change from the life of a student to this," said the tall, thin Li, who is in London briefly to open celebrations for Chinese New Year.
"I still keep in touch with my friends, but my schedule is so busy that I don't get much time to myself at all," she told Reuters.
It was not as though Li, who described her main music college subject as "pop singing", intentionally used the contest as a career springboard.
"I only entered it to keep a friend of mine company," she said, speaking through an interpreter.
Never having left China, and barely her home province, before winning the contest, Li now finds her image plastered across advertising billboards and magazines everywhere.
Accusations by her critics that she has a mediocre voice with a talent to match cut no ice with her legion of fans who mob her every appearance.
Asked if she welcomed the apparent encroachment of American pop culture into China she replied that it was not something she had ever thought about.
"I have never considered questions like this. It was a contest. I love singing and I entered it," she said with a shrug.
And what of her plans for the future?
"I have no long term plans. But I have already released a single and this year I will release my first album," Li said. "My record company hired producers to write songs for me this time, but in future I hope to write my own songs."
If her millions of fans cannot wait for her album to appear they will soon have a token to tide them over when the China National Philatelic Corporation this week issues a postage stamp bearing her image -- a first for a mainland Chinese pop star.
"I am very happy and delighted," Li said. "It will make me feel very close to my fans."
时代浪尖上的中国时尚人物李宇春
伦敦－路透社
李宇春，这个赢得中国版“美国偶像”节目冠军的音乐学生，至今还颇不适应她成为超级明星后接踵而来的转变。
超级女生是一个极其流行的电视才艺比赛，这个21岁来自四川有着男孩般调皮性格的姑娘在赢得去年秋天的比赛冠军后从原来的默默无名而一下子飞速窜红。
估计共有四亿电视观众收看了长达三小时的总决赛，350万人为李投了票。（显然英国没弄清楚投票规则）
“这对我的学生生活来说是一个巨大的转变”高高瘦瘦的李说。她此次来伦敦
主要是来参加中国年庆祝活动的开幕式。
“我仍然和我的朋友们保持联系，但我的日程安排太满了，以致我现在根本没什么个人时间。”她对路透社记者说。
根据李的描述，她的专业是“通俗演唱”，但她从未打算利用这次参赛作为自己职业生涯跳板。
“我只是陪一个朋友去比赛”她通过一个翻译说。
赢得比赛以前，她从未离开过中国，也几乎没离开过她的家乡，而现在，她的形象遍布巨型广告招牌和杂志。
有批评说她的声音普通，才艺平庸，但这丝毫不能影响她在任何所到之处都受到她粉丝军团的包围。
当记者问她是否赞同美国流行文化对中国的侵入，她说她从来没有想到过这个问题。“我从来不考虑这样的问题。这只是一场比赛而已。我喜欢唱歌所以我参加了”她耸耸肩说。
那她对未来的计划呢？
“我没有什么长期的计划。但我已经发行了一首单曲，而且今年我会发行自己的第一张专辑。”李说。“我的唱片公司这次是雇制作人为我写歌的，但我希望将来自己能够写自己的歌。”
如果她数以百万的粉丝等不及她的首张专辑面世，很快他们也能得到一份象征性的礼物聊以安慰－－－中国集邮公司本星期发行了一套带有她形象的纪念邮票－－－－中国大陆明星有史以来的第一次。
“我非常开心”李说。“这让我觉得和粉丝们异常亲近。”
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