Elyse Ribbons (October 27, 1980 - ) is an American entrepreneur, writer, businesswoman, and playwright who lives and works in

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. Known in China by her Chinese name Liu Suying (柳素英) who spends time on both corporate work media work (via columns, a nationally syndicated radio show-

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Laowai Kandian
regular news media appearances and filming movies). She is currently the CEO and Founder of GeiLi Giving, winner of several awards in the startup and social entrepreneurial space. She has authored several articles for Forbes magazine on business, culture, and life in China. Cheeky Monkey Theater' She holds an MFA in Peking Opera. She created a theater company, Cheeky Monkey Theater in 2007, which is based in Beijing and produced original works 5 or 6 times a year. Performances include ''I Heart Beijing'' and ''Green Eyes on China.'' Ribbons also created and produced the annual Shifen (10-minute) Theater Festival in China's capital city, featuring productions lasting anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes long. Ribbons has appeared in local magazines and newspapers and

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programs. She can also be recognized from pictures depicting the

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hosted in Beijing. She previously worked for the US Embassy in China. She has also starred as

Helen Foster Snow Helen Foster Snow (September 21, 1907 – January 11, 1997) was an American journalist who reported from China in the 1930s under the name Nym Wales on the developing Chinese Civil War, the Korean independence movement and the Second Sino-Japan ...

in the television series based

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which aired to millions of viewers on

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in 2016.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110718140458/http://bjtoday.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=43387305 * https://web.archive.org/web/20090119155329/http://bjtoday.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=46279309 * https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121856322566933893 * http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/articles/cw-magazine/day-life/playwright/ * http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-11/27/content_16837661.htm
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* http://gbtimes.com/life/journey-east-elyse-ribbons-decade-beijing * http://www.sino-us.com/21/Elyse-Ribbons-China-is-my-home-too.html

* http://www.iheartbeijing.com/?override=1 * https://www.forbes.com/sites/elyseribbons/ * https://www.techinasia.com/chinaccelerator-7th-batch-startups * http://www.npi.org.cn/category/aboutus/news/page/3 * http://www.bjreview.com/Special_Reports/2016/Celebrating_the_80th_Anniversary_of_the_Long_March/In_Depth/201610/t20161018_800069634.html * http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/chinablog/helen-foster-snow-qa-elyse-ribbons/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ribbons, Elyse Living people American businesspeople Year of birth missing (living people)