[UA] Chinese Icon Assistance

[Werdeth Holm]

Thank you for the suggestions.  I briefly read through some internet 
biographies to put the proposed names into context.  So far, Deng Xiaoping 
is my leading contender.

“Deng Xiaoping” - a good suggestion.  Many modern Chinese icons (I’ve 
recently read) are of a political nature due to the sheer amount of 
propaganda they received.  His death in 1997, and the fact that at least 100 
million Chinese must recognize his face, makes him a very possible 
candidate.  I’m imagining his Idol would represent political powers of some 
nature which my player and I would have to research and define.

“Sun Yat-sen” - he would be a good suggestion, too; he is at least arguably 
more recognizable (his name anyway) than Deng Xiaoping; but his death in 
1925 makes him ineligible to be an iconomantic Idol (all deaths must be 
after WWII).

“Pu Yi” - the movie _The Last Emperor_ elevates him in the eyes of 
Westerners, plus it has the bonus of telling a rather tragic story, which is 
good for an Idol, but is Pu Yi really face-recognizable by 100 million 
people?  He could be a good choice, though.  I recognize the name, at least.

“Lu Xun” - unfortunately, he died in 1936 prior to WWII and therefore is 
ineligible as an Idol; another good suggestion, though.

“Faye Wong” - a more than popular enough figure, but she’s still alive, and 
iconomancer Idols can only channel the dead so far (though _Postmodern 
Magick_ says that some adepts are trying to get around that).  I had an idea 
of a scenario, though, in which a ruthless iconomancer plots the 
murder/assassination of a famous bubblegum teen idol of the United States 
(Britney Spears, for example) in order to channel her powers after death.  
Perhaps I can rework this idea for outside the United States to Ms. Wong . . 
. ?

“Tony Leung & Brigitte Lin” - as above.

“[The]  still-unknown, still-at-large fellow who stood up to the tanks at 
Tiananmen Square” - isn’t he mentioned as a possible avatar in 
_Statosphere_?  In any case, his very anonymity prevents him from being an 
Idol.

Incidentally, has anyone considered the following Western figures as Idols:

Howard Hughes
Babe Ruth
Errol Flynn
Clark Gable
Humphrey Bogart
Colonel Harland Sanders . . ?

Thanks for the ideas.  The ones suggested really have helped me a lot.

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