Bjork's Tibet cry angers fans in China

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The Icelandic singer, Bjork, has caused controversy among fans in China by shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of a concert in Shanghai.

The singer ended her concert by singing her song "Declare Independence" as an encore. Before its final rallying cry of "Raise your flag!" she intoned "Tibet, Tibet" repeatedly.

The singer spoke and sang in English, and the Chinese who made up half the audience may not have understood her. Tibet is known as Xizang in Mandarin but talks people were posting about it in every chinese forum and blog later.

"If she wants to be political, please go home and mind her own business, please don't buzz about other country's inner affairs," wrote one contributor on the English-language danwei.org.

"The atmosphere was very strange, uncomfortable compared to the rest of the concert," said Stephen Gow, a British teacher who lives in Shanghai.

People did not boo, he said, but they left the Shanghai International Gymnastic Centre hurriedly.

Officials at the China-based company promoting the concert, Emma Ticketmaster, said they had no comment.

[Jim Colyer]

It gets no weirder than this.

[Umma]

I'd like to visit Tibet, but only if the Dalai Lama is back in charge of things.

[vernarial]

I'd be willing to bet that the fans weren't that upset. I bet it was the Government that was angry, and then they 'leaked' a propaghanda story.