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Afu Thomas
Thomas Derksen (born 26 October 1988 German version/ref>), known as "Afu" Thomas (), is a German internet celebrity active in China. Biography Afu was born as Thomas Derksen, on 26 October 1988, into a Aussiedler family in Gummersbach, Germany, which later moved to Marienheide where Afu was raised. He is the youngest of six children of Maria, a chef, and Peter Derksen, an engineer, preceded by three brothers and two sisters. He is of Volga German descent, his ancestors emigrated to Russia with Catherine the Great. His family returned to Germany from the Soviet Union in 1987, and Afu is the only child of his parents who was born in Germany. As a student at Engelbert-von-Berg-Gymnasium Wipperfürth, he took Chinese for two years there and did a student exchange trip to China in 2007, his first time in the country. After briefly working in banking at he studied at Ruhr University Bochum, taking courses about business and Chinese. From 2013 to 2014, he attended Fudan University, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tencent QQ
Tencent QQ (), also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service and web portal developed by the Chinese technology company Tencent. QQ offers services that provide online social games, music, shopping, microblogging, movies, and group and voice chat software. As of March 2022, there were 563.8 million monthly active QQ accounts. History Tencent QQ was first released in China in February 1999 under the name of OICQ ("Open ICQ", a reference to the early IM service ICQ). After the threat of a trademark infringement lawsuit by the AOL-owned ICQ, the product's name was changed to QQ (with "Q" and "QQ" used to imply "cute"). The software inherited existing functions from ICQ, and additional features such as software skins, people's images, and emoticons. QQ was first released as a " network paging" real-time communications service. Other features were later added, such as chatrooms, games, personal avatars (similar to "Meego" in MSN), online storage, and Internet dati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Sterzel
Winston Frederick Sterzel, also known by his YouTube pseudonym SerpentZA, is a South African vlogger and video producer. He lived in Shenzhen in the Guangdong province of China for fourteen years. His videos cover a variety of topics relating to life in China from a Westerner's perspective. Early life Sterzel is of British heritage and was born and raised in South Africa. He moved to China to work as an English teacher after first visiting on business in 2005. Career in China In 2015, he was one of twelve South Africans in China profiled by China Radio International. He started uploading videos in China in 2007, and became a full-time vlogger in 2016. His videos primarily focus on life in China as viewed from a Westerner's perspective. Sterzel has also made videos about motorcycle trips through China. With fellow YouTuber Matthew Tye (who goes by Laowhy86) and other friends, he has taken extended journeys and produced documentary series titled ''Conquering Southern China'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Lyons
Amy Lyons () is an Australian media personality and influencer active in China, where she is known as a " wǎng hóng" (网红), which in China means people who are famous on social media. She originated from the city of Sydney, Re-postat ''New Zealand Herald'' and is an alumna of the secondary school Pymble Ladies' College. - The article misidentifies Pymble as her university (as "college" in American English means a university). She stated that her interest in China began with a history class she took in her final year there in 2011, as the teacher was highly interested in the country. As an international commerce student at the University of New South Wales, she began taking Mandarin Chinese courses in 2012, in 2014 she took a student exchange period in Shanghai, of seven months, at Fudan University. Around 2014 she began working at a bank in Australia, but disliked it, and she also served as a cheerleader in the Manly Seabirds, the cheerleading team of the Manly Warringah Sea Eag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gulasi
David Gulasi is an Australian social media figure active in China. In 2017 Rowan Callick of the ''Weekend Australian'' described him as "by far the best-known Australian in the country". - Alternate title: "China's accidental megastar"Available atPressreader Early biography He grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. His family was Turkish Australian. He attended the University of Sydney with a study programme in computers. He initially worked in sales, and had a career in Mediterranean cuisine. He also previously did standup comedy. Career Circa 2011 he moved to Hohhot, and began working at Hohhot No 35 Middle School. The agency he used assigned him to Hohhot even though he was at first to go to Shenyang. Gulasi later established his own training school for adult education, New World Language Training School. Gulasi had started a social media account with some videos, and before his first major video, his follower count was 50. He gained significant social media attention whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raz Gal-Or
Raz Gal-Or ( he, רז גל-אור; ) is an Israeli internet businessperson in China. Gal-Or, the son of Amir Gal-Or, originated from a community near Tel Aviv, and moved to Hong Kong at age 13; at the time Gal-Or lacked fluency in English, and he also lacked fluency in any variety of Chinese. Frank Tang of the '' South China Morning Post'' wrote that "his China journey was driven by the ambitions of his father". He attended the Canadian International School of Hong Kong. He is an alumnus of Peking University, where he studied international relations. He first gained media exposure in China when he got a single appearance on television. Tang stated that by 2017 Gal-Or was embedded in a Chinese lifestyle and that his Mandarin was "fluent". In July 2021, BBC News reported that Gal-Or was working as a stringer for China Global Television Network. Foreigner Research Institute China Gal-Or operates the (FRI; ), also known as Y-Platform, a social media group which documents lives o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashan
Mark Henry Rowswell, CM (born May 23, 1965), better known by his Chinese stage name Dashan (), is a Canadian comedian and television personality popular in China. Relatively unknown in the West, from the late 1980s through the early 2000s Dashan was one of the most famous Western personalities in China's media industry, where he occupied a unique position as a foreign national who had become a domestic celebrity, largely through his repeated appearances on China Central Television (CCTV) during that period. Since 2012 Dashan has largely turned away from mainstream media to focus on solo performances in live venues, helping to introduce stand-up comedy to China. Biography Education Rowswell attended high school at Nepean High School in Ottawa, Ontario. Rowswell began studying Chinese while attending the University of Toronto in 1984. His original Chinese name, as given by his Canadian Chinese-language teacher, was Lu Shiwei () based on his surname Rowswell. Upon graduation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee And Oli Barrett
Lee and Oli Barrett are a pair of British YouTubers based in Shenzhen, China. Lee is the father and had lived in China for a period since before 2019. Oli, the son, formerly operated a YouTube channel related to ''Call of Duty'' and moved to China in 2019. Their channel was established circa June 2019. By May 2020 the two had 100,000 subscribers. Alternate link atYahoo Sports By June 2021, they had 29 million views. By July of the same year, Lee Barrett was working as a Stringer (journalism), stringer for China Global Television Network. According to ''The Sunday Times'', the Chinese government sponsors the Barretts for their content, but the allegation was disputed by Lee Barrett on their YouTube channel, claiming that they have taken expenses-paid trips sponsored by government affiliated entities, but had had full editorial independence for their content output. Content The Barretts make content defending the Chinese government and its surveillance program, stating that the Xinj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, Anosmia, loss of smell, and Ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected Asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, Hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galileo (German TV Series)
''Galileo'' is a German television program series produced and broadcast on ProSieben television network. It is also sold to broadcasters in other countries (namely Russia). The first show was broadcast in 1998, and is now stored in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway, after being transferred to special film created by Piql. Galileo has also a YouTube channel which has more than 3 million subscribers as of September 2020. Former national rugby player Aiman Abdallah is one of the presenters. References External links *Official website(in German)Galileoon YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ... 1998 German television series debuts 1990s German television series 2000s German television series 2010s German television series 2020s German televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History On 6 October 1945, five months after the end of World War II in Germany, the ''SZ'' was the first newspaper to receive a license from the US military administration of Bavaria. Thfirst issuewas published the same evening, allegedly printed from the same (repurposed) presses that had printed ''Mein Kampf''. The first article begins with: Declines in ad sales in the early 2000s was so severe that the paper was on the brink of bankruptcy in October 2002. The Süddeutsche survived through a 150 million euro investment by a new shareholder, a regional newspaper chain called Südwestdeutsche Medien. Over a period of three years, the newspaper underwent a reduction in its staff, from 425 to 307, the closing of a regional edition in Düsseldor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. Merkel was the first female chancellor of Germany. During her tenure as Chancellor, Merkel was frequently referred to as the ''de facto'' leader of the European Union (EU), the most powerful woman in the world, and since 2016 the leader of the free world. Merkel was born in Hamburg in then-West Germany, moving to East Germany as an infant when her father, a Lutheran clergyman, received a pastorate in Perleberg. She obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989. Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, briefly serving as deputy spokeswoman for the first democratically elected Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
