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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] |
The Beijinger
''The Beijinger'' (, stylized as "the Beijinger" or "thebeijinger") is a free monthly English language listings and entertainment website and magazine produced by True Run Media in Beijing, China. It was founded in October 2001 as ''that's Beijing''. In June 2008, True Run Media was required to rename ''that's Beijing'' to ''The Beijinger'' because of trademark issues. A newly created and unrelated ''that's Beijing'' magazine was launched under the ownership of China Electric Media and China International Press. The magazine has a weekly newsletter discussing the city's events and lists places' addresses in both Chinese characters and pinyin. It has classified advertising and personal advertisement sections that allow users to find housing, employment, and relationships as well as buy and sell goods. History ''The Beijinger'' is a free listings and lifestyle magazine published at the beginning of each month by expatriates and available in numerous restaurants bars, hotels, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sina Weibo
Sina Weibo (新浪微博) is a Chinese microblogging ( weibo) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest social media platforms in China, with over 582 million monthly active users (252 million daily active users) as of Q1 2022. The platform has been a huge financial success, with surging stocks, lucrative advertising sales and high revenue and total earnings per quarter. At the start of 2018, it surpassed the US$30 billion market valuation mark for the first time. In March 2014, Sina Corporation announced a spinoff of Sina Weibo as a separate entity called simply "Weibo", and filed an IPO under the symbol WB. Sina carved out 11% of Weibo in the IPO, with Alibaba owning 32% post-IPO. The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014. In March 2017, Sina launched Sina Weibo International Version. In November 2018, Sina Weibo suspended its registration function for minors under the age of 14. In July 2019, Sina Weibo announced that i ... [...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] |
Raz Galor
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 of ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Australians In China
Australians in China include Australian expatriates in China, international students, Chinese Australians as well as Chinese people of Australian descent. In 2001, there were over 55,000 Australians present in China. Out of them, over 2,000 lived in the capital Beijing; an estimated 3,900 in Guangzhou and about 2,500 in Shanghai. Notwithstanding mainland China, the remaining overwhelming 46,000 Australians resided in Hong Kong. By 2010, the number of Australians living in Mainland China had grown to 13,286, according to the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China. Sport Australian rules football in China has been revived by expat Australians. Notable people * David Gulasi - Social media personality in China - Alternate title: "China's accidental megastar"Available atPressreader * Amy Lyons - Social media personality in China See also * Australians in Hong Kong * Australian diaspora * Chinese Australian * Australian rules football in China Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanghong Economy
The ''wanghong'' economy refers to the Chinese digital economy based on influencer marketing through social media. ''Wanghong'' ( zh, s=网红, p=wǎnghóng, l=Internet fame) is the Chinese term for internet celebrity. Chinese ''wanghong'' celebrities attract the attention of Internet users, which can translate into profit through e-commerce and online advertising. According to CBN (AM), CBN Data, a commercial data company affiliated with Alibaba Group, Alibaba, the Chinese Internet celebrity economy was estimated to be worth ¥58 billion Renminbi, RMB (United States dollar, US$8.4 billion) in 2016, which is more than China's total movie box office revenue in 2015. Business model Online retailing ''Wanghong'' celebrities use social media platforms to sell their self-branded products to potential buyers among their followers via Chinese customer-to-customer Customer to customer, C2C websites, such as Taobao. Celebrities may promote their products by modelling for their business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC (Australia)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tag and location, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed. Instagram was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in a square (1:1) aspect ratio of 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, this restriction was eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. It also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main competitor Snapchat—which allowed users to post their content to a sequential feed, with each post accessible to others for 24 hours. As of Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
