Tag: Shanghai Small Talk

Meng Hongwei (孟宏伟; born November 1953) is a Chinese former politician and was the President of Interpol from 2016 until 2018. He once served as Vice Minister of Public Security in...

Teresa Teng, Teng Li-Chun or Deng Lijun (邓丽君，January 29, 1953 – May 8, 1995) was a Taiwanese pop singer. She was known for her folk songs and...

Others disagreed. “Li Ziqi only shows the underdeveloped aspect of China to foreigners,” one user said. “We Chinese don’t live that way.”

Jiang Jiemin (蒋洁敏, born October 1954) is a former Chinese oil executive and senior Communist Party and economic official. He was the general manager and then chairman of...

Zhang Liangying (张靓颖; born October 11, 1984), also known as Jane Zhang, is a Chinese pop singer. She rose to prominence after her third-place performance in the...

Xuecheng (学诚法师; born 3 October 1966) is a Buddhist monk, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a popular blogger. He serves as abbot of Guanghua...

Liu Huan (刘欢，born August 26, 1963 in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese singer and songwriter. He is one of China's modern era pioneers in pop music and...

Lu Han (鹿晗，born 20 April 1990), better known by the mononym Luhan, is a Chinese singer and actor. He is a former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO and its sub-group EXO-M, having terminated his contract with S.M. Entertainment and left the group in October 2014. 

Sun Li (孙俪，or Betty Sun, born September 26, 1982) is a Chinese actress. She is hailed by critics and netizens as China's "Queen of Television". Sun first entered show...

Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu) and...

Former top Chinese general Fang Fenghui sentenced to life for corruption amid Xi Jinping's crackdown.

Wang Shi (王石, born in 1951 Guangxi Province, China) is a Chinese businessman. He is the Founder and Chairman of China Vanke, the largest real estate enterprise in China and the largest residential real estate developer in the world.

Fei-Fei Li (born 1976), who publishes under the name Li Fei-Fei（李飞飞), is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. She is the director of the Stanford...

Huang Rulun (黄如伦) is a Chinese billionaire, head of the privately held real estate developer, Century Golden Resources Group. In May 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth at...

Fang Shimin (方是民, better known by his pen name Fang Zhouzi 方舟子), is a Chinese popular scientific writer who is also well known for his campaign against...

Retired Chinese footballer Hao Haidong has delivered a manifesto he wants to use to overthrow China's government and replace it with a new one, and he says he has the backing of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Liu Tao (刘涛) is a Chinese actress from Jiangnan. She was born 12th July 1978. Her major works include My Fair Princess III, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Dali Princess,...

Xu Jiayin (Chinese: 许家印; born 1958), or Hui Ka Yan in Cantonese, is a Chinese businessman, chairman of Evergrande Group, a Chinese real estate developer. Evergrande's debt...

Wei Jingsheng (魏京生; born 20 May 1950, Beijing) is a Chinese human rights activist known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement.

Shi Yigong (施一公; born May 1967) is a Chinese biophysicist in the field of protein X-ray crystallography and is the Dean of School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University. Shi...