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David Beckham is the third most capped English football player of all time. Yet despite showing some early promise in the sport, none of his sons look like repeating his feat. Romeo, the middle son, still harbours hopes of a professional career ...
Who is she? Born in Tieling, a coal-mining city in Liaoning province, comedian Li Xueqin, 25, did not have a happy childhood. Her parents divorced when she was young and Li was raised mainly by her mother. She worked hard so ...
In the jingoistic action flick Wolf Warrior II, China is portrayed as the world’s saviour at almost every turn. There is also a Dr Chen, who finds a vaccine to counter an infectious disease ravaging Africa. That subplot is meant to pay ...
Who is she? Yamy, whose real name is Guo Ying, found fame when she appeared on the reality show Produce 101 on Tencent Video. With her versatile rapping and dance background, the ...
When singer-actress-writer Annie Yi was announced as one of the contestants in reality show Sisters Who Make Waves, in which 30 mid-career female celebrities try to win a place in a new pop group, her odds of winning looked good (see ...
Why is she in the news? Mixed martial arts star Zhang Weili defended her straw-weight title against Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 248 in Las Vegas on March 8, winning a bitter, five-round ...
Who is she? Eileen Gu – also known by her Chinese name, Gu Ailing – was born in 2003 in San Francisco. The 16 year-old freestyle skier first developed a love for skiing when her mother, ...
Who is she? Born in Queens, New York, to a Chinese father and Korean mother, Nora Lum, 31, began rapping when she was 13 and adopted the name Awkwafina for her on-stage persona a few years ...
Can Xue missed out on the Nobel Prize for Literature earlier this month (despite the award going to two winners this year) but local interest in her work has increased after speculation that she was in the running.
Disney’s animated film Mulan flopped in China 10 years ago as audiences complained the titular character Hua Mulan was too foreign-looking and the plot was too different from the original legend, which has a young woman disguising herself as a ...