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Zhang Ziyi

How to Become a Chinese Internet Celebrity.

07.19.2010 Insights

Here’s an eye opener: China’s most famous digital blogger is more popular than China’s top movie and sports star celebrities combined… by a pretty wide margin. This is crazy, but when you think of it, oddly intuitively right. Offline celebrities are great, but seem distant and inaccessible. When compared to your average blogger or online [...]

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“Does Zhang Ziyi Represent Chinese Women?”

01.28.2010 China Modern Culture

Hey All, the below is from Veronica who is writing about Zhang ZiYi, a famous Chinese movie star and whether she represents Chinese women. It’s an interesting culture article and a good way to get quick insight into the heart of the Chinese woman. Enjoy; -Rand As the proudest international star from China, the spotlight [...]

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Did actress Zhang Ziyi insult China? Chinese netizens respond to her nude photo shoot in movie “The Horsemen”.

04.26.2009 China Modern Culture

Recently, Zhang Ziyi becomes a hot topic on China internet again. This time, it is about her “China insulting” in newest Hollywood movie “The Horsemen”. Below is the news report and related comment from Chinese netizens. News from 163.com (source: Chongqing Times) Lately, the international blockbuster movie “The Horsemen” is showing in Taiwan, Hollywood Chinese [...]

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Metan; What I Learned from Chinese Reality TV. (1)
- Mao Ruiqi: Despite the risk entailed in judging the whole by a part, you seem to have once again proved to be quite...
GM; When their viral videos dominate Chinese internet, GM decides to make a few more. (1)
- Benton Roatch: Tnx for that info. It’s very much appreciated! Best regards.
Accessing Twitter from China via Linkedin (Proxy/VPN not required). (7)
- k10: On my Nokia N95 phone I am using SymVPN software from www.telexy.com and VPN account from www.swissvpn.net...
- Tait: My VPN isn’t slow. I use Witopia.net. (I’m not affiliated with them.)
- S. Rein: Some things are better left quiet. There is not benefit from posting this.
- Rand: That’ll take time; GFW still in process of killing off it’s second wave of home grown microblogs.
- thomas: Just saying that the GFW are surely going to jump on this.
- Rand: …What’s Linkedin blocked?
- thomas: Well that’s LinkedIn blocked……..
My logo is bigger than your logo! The culture of Chinese consumerism. (15)
- Rand: I believe a time will come when the Chinese consumer is more discerning, its just going to take time. For now,...
- baobabs: The same phenomenon happened in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan etc. China has the...
How to Become a Chinese Internet Celebrity. (7)
- Rand: True, he was a best selling author, among many best selling authors, but after becoming a blogger he became...
- jeff: Only problem with this comparison is the HanHan became famous before he starting blogging. He went...
- C. Maoxian: Not in this post… this is a Vancl ad I see every day in the subway. Sorry for being cryptic.
- Rand: ? I’m not seeing that in the vancl ad in this post, are u refering to another ad not featured here? The...
- C. Maoxian: No, I mean the girl with the bob haircut wearing the 99 kuai polka dot dress. The one with the nice nose.
- Rand: You mean the girl riding by on her bike? She’s not in the ad, shes just overlapping it!
- C. Maoxian: Any idea who the girl is in the Vancl ads?