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Red Star

The personalities making headlines in China

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Next stop, world peace
Aug 24, 2012 (WiC 161)

Yu Wenxia, 23, was a music student at the Harbin Normal University College of Music before she won Miss Tourism in Harbin, a local beauty pageant. She then competed to become China’s entry to the Miss World beauty pageant, which was held last ...

Shanghai calling
Jun 29, 2012 (WiC 156)

Zhu Zhu, whose grandfather was a Communist Party general, was raised in Beijing. She began learning the piano at three and is also said to have a knack for foreign languages. She went on to study electronics and information engineering at Beijing ...

Tiger Mark II?
Jun 22, 2012 (WiC 155)

Andy Zhang made golfing history at the US Open last week, as well as getting the chance to meet many of his sporting heroes. Why is he in the news? Zhang, who was born in Beijing but moved to Florida when he was 10, won a ...

Phoenix Legend
May 25, 2012 (WiC 151)

Ling Hua comes from Inner Mongolia and Zeng Yi from Hunan, but the two met in 1998 in the city of Guangzhou, where both were working as migrant workers. The two also spent many of their evenings performing at nightclubs. A year later, they formed ...

China’s Lady Gaga
Apr 27, 2012 (WiC 147)

Shang Wenjie, who majored in French at Shanghai’s Fudan University, worked as an interpreter before gaining national fame in 2006 as the winner of the third season of Hunan TV’s reality talent contest Super Girls. Why is ...

A Simple Life
Apr 20, 2012 (WiC 146)

Born in Liaoning province to a Japanese mother and Chinese father, Ann Hui, 64, lived in Macau until she was five and then moved with her family to Hong Kong. She studied at the London International Film School before returning to Hong Kong to ...

China’s Gossip Girl
Apr 13, 2012 (WiC 145)

She won’t be too familiar to WiC readers but the 25 year-old Chinese actress is definitely on the rise. Yang Mi’s acting career started when she was 4, playing a minor role in King of Beggars (1992). The young actress then went on to ...

Mr Lincredible
Feb 17, 2012 (WiC 138)

Born in 1988, Lin grew up in Palo Alto, California. His basketball career has been anything but smooth sailing. When he graduated from Harvard in 2010 he didn’t make the NBA draft, later joining the Dallas Mavericks for their NBA Summer League ...

The world of weibo
Jan 20, 2012 (WiC 135)

Liu Dong is a 23 year-old employee at internet search engine firm Baidu, who works in its human resources department. How did her photo go viral? Baidu is closely followed by netizens. Its New Year’s Day party for staff ...

Once a pig farmer, now a national beauty
Dec 2, 2011 (WiC 131)

One of China’s most distinguished actors, Ge You, 54, never went to acting school. Until 1978, he was a pig farmer in Beijing and it was his unlikely role in a short skit on pig breeding that brought him to the attention of China’s National ...

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Red Star

The personalities making headlines in China

Next stop, world peace Aug 24, 2012 (WiC 161) Yu Wenxia, 23, was a music student at the Harbin Normal University College of Music before she won Miss Tourism in Harbin, a local beauty pageant. She then competed to become China’s entry to the Miss World beauty pageant, which was held last ...

Shanghai calling Jun 29, 2012 (WiC 156) Zhu Zhu, whose grandfather was a Communist Party general, was raised in Beijing. She began learning the piano at three and is also said to have a knack for foreign languages. She went on to study electronics and information engineering at Beijing ...

Tiger Mark II? Jun 22, 2012 (WiC 155) Andy Zhang made golfing history at the US Open last week, as well as getting the chance to meet many of his sporting heroes. Why is he in the news? Zhang, who was born in Beijing but moved to Florida when he was 10, won a ...

Phoenix Legend May 25, 2012 (WiC 151) Ling Hua comes from Inner Mongolia and Zeng Yi from Hunan, but the two met in 1998 in the city of Guangzhou, where both were working as migrant workers. The two also spent many of their evenings performing at nightclubs. A year later, they formed ...

China’s Lady Gaga Apr 27, 2012 (WiC 147) Shang Wenjie, who majored in French at Shanghai’s Fudan University, worked as an interpreter before gaining national fame in 2006 as the winner of the third season of Hunan TV’s reality talent contest Super Girls. Why is ...

A Simple Life Apr 20, 2012 (WiC 146) Born in Liaoning province to a Japanese mother and Chinese father, Ann Hui, 64, lived in Macau until she was five and then moved with her family to Hong Kong. She studied at the London International Film School before returning to Hong Kong to ...

China’s Gossip Girl Apr 13, 2012 (WiC 145) She won’t be too familiar to WiC readers but the 25 year-old Chinese actress is definitely on the rise. Yang Mi’s acting career started when she was 4, playing a minor role in King of Beggars (1992). The young actress then went on to ...

Mr Lincredible Feb 17, 2012 (WiC 138) Born in 1988, Lin grew up in Palo Alto, California. His basketball career has been anything but smooth sailing. When he graduated from Harvard in 2010 he didn’t make the NBA draft, later joining the Dallas Mavericks for their NBA Summer League ...

The world of weibo Jan 20, 2012 (WiC 135) Liu Dong is a 23 year-old employee at internet search engine firm Baidu, who works in its human resources department. How did her photo go viral? Baidu is closely followed by netizens. Its New Year’s Day party for staff ...