Just for curiosity sake, I googled to check out the heights of our Little Tigers. Of course there were varying results, but just chose those which seem closest
:
Nicky Wu - 5'8 173cm (sometimes listed as 5'9 175cm)
Alec Su - 5'8 172cm (some sources list him as 174cm)
Banny Chen - 5'7 170cm
All are still much taller than me though. I'm only LSS' height (5'5 165cm).
Anyway, the most popular Chinese male stars are usually shorter than 175cm. Jimmy Lin is 5'7/170cm and very cool. Tony Leung is 171cm. Aaron Kwok is 172cm. Jay Chou is 173cm. Andy Lau is 174cm. It's a Southern Chinese thing. Hu Ge, Yuan Hong and Lin Gengxin are Northerners.
Only Southern Chinese who grew up in the West are taller (bcos of their Western diet?). E.g. Kevin Cheng (179cm), Leehom Wang (180cm), Peter Ho (184cm), Eddie Peng (180cm).
And there are padded shoes which can help, like this:
$this->handle_bbcode_img_match('http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/773/hxmo.jpg')
Makes Huang Xiaoming look almost as tall as Peter!