Where there is love, there is hope; Where there hope, never give up.
Hate her or love her, Li Yuchun is one of the most recognizable symbols of Chinese entertainment. Top ten influential Chinese of the past decade, number one baidu tieba, most popular artist, and record album sales are only some of the things that characterize her. While it is always hard for us non-fans to determine what makes her such an icon, it is not hard to discern what makes her fans so attractive. This often overlooked group is undeniably a major key to her success. Other than the pure fanaticism and amount of money spent on her, it is also what the fans chose to use their love for her on that makes them distinguished. While volunteering and charity is not unique to the Yumi’s, as her fans are called, it has never reached the organization and scale that Li Yuchun’s fans made it have.
The Yumi Love Fund is the only Red Cross Fund started and owned by a fanclub. To this date, the Yumi Love Fund has raised over 6 million yuan. Other than direct donations to help children with leukemia, the Yumi Love Fund has been done to set up five Yumi Love Health Centers in rural regions in Sichuan (3), Anhui and Gansu, with one more in construction in Henan The health centers are mostly staffed by Yumi volunteers, and helps to provide basic health care to the locals. After a flood ruined the Sichuan town of Nanchong, Yumi Love fund and volunteers helped to rebuild the town – causing the town to be renamed Yumi Town. Yumi’s also set up the active tieba named “if there’s hope, then don’t give up,” which allows Yumi’s to auction off their goods for charity.
A video about the Yumi Love Fund and Volunteers, followed by Li Yuchun’s performance of their theme song – “We’re all the same” at her 2009 Why Me Concert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQWSDQ5TIPA
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Recommended by Li Yuchun, Jane Zhang, Huang Yali, Ye Yiqian, Chen Xibei, Chen Chusheng, Su Xing, Wei Chen, Wang Baoqiang, etc... I think they forgot Wei Chen's name
A year after she announced her break with eeMedia and finally showing some of her old hyper excitement (and losing some of her depression), Super Girl He Jie is releasing her new new book on her birthday on March 25th. In addition to being recommended by the people listed in the captions, the book features the cartoons of He Jie’s little brother, current Central Arts Academy student He Yun, and the literary guidance of Tan Kuo, one of the top eeMedia lyricists who penned songs like Top Combine’s Arrival, Tan Lina’s Feline, Pan Chen’s No Big Deal and Super Girls/Boys’ Sing Loudly.
After the lawsuit, He Jie released a single late last year that shifted from her old sexy image to a graceful one. She then did a 180 degrees turn by posing shirtless for Esquire, showing that it wasn’t just eeMedia that turned her from tomboy to sexy. With her new single, she then went on various variety shows, including Hunan TV’s Jie Jie Gao Sheng. Through these shows, she seems to have slowly came out of her former depression and has been more and more lively, slowly bringing back her chirpy music style that I love so much.
Singing upbeat song OK OK with AK group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjol6PNb_bA
source: sohu
Hong Mao Lan Tu Huo Feng Huang is the second movie of the franchise
Up against the fierce competition of the cute sheep and wolves of Pleasant Sheep and the Big, Big Wolf 2 (喜羊羊与灰太狼之虎虎生威) this New Year’s season is Hong Mao Lan Tu Huo Feng Huang (虹猫蓝兔火凤凰), another animated feature based on a popular cartoon series. While Xi Yang Yang aims for the funny and simplistic, Hong Mao is more of an intricate epic tale that appeals to the wuxia fan in everyone. The original series, which I feel like had a much better plot, tells of seven legendary swordsmen whose children grew up and must discover their destiny and each other to defeat the evil clan in protection of the beautiful Zhangjiajie.
Both the new Hong Mao and the new XiYangYang movie are available on sohu hd. Which one do you like better?
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Actress Fan Bingbing further proves that she is such a workaholic with two gorgeous photoshoots. See more here and here.
Meteor Shower’s second female lead Peng Yang dances and eats with a tiger in a cute Beijing TimeOut photoshoot here.
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Yay, company !(no pun intended)
2010 Super Boys (快乐男声) has received approval from SARFT. This year, preparation time will be less rushed.
Today at 11:53am Beijing Time – message sent from a cellphone
-Sina Weibo(microblog) of Zhang Huali, Vice-Director of Hunan Satellite TV
Super Boys has been approved by SARFT! After a three years, eeMedia will finally get a new dose of hot and talented singers.
In addition to Super Boys, another competition show named “Green China: Flower Blossoms” was approved mid-February. The show will be hosted by Hunan TV’s recently brought subsidiary Qinghai TV.
Jaeson Ma spent the past year making the film 1040, about the spread of Christianity in the area known as the “10/40 window”, referring to the area between 10 degrees and 40 degrees North latitude in the Eastern hemisphere. The film covers China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia. Jaeson is friends with a lot of entertainers in Asia, so the documentary has a large amount of interviews with stars like Van Ness Wu, Jin Tha MC, and Sean Noh (of Jinusean). The powerful film can get intense, as it shows people talking in tongues, exorcisms. It also contains moving interviews and coverage about missionary activity Asians are doing in places where westerners really can’t go anymore, like in Afghanistan. Visit the film’s website here, where there is info if you have a church you’d like to attend screenings with and see the hard work of these guys culminate on the screen.
The trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQVzkpJbF8
Two additional interviews below the cut.
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Tang Dynasty, whom some called China’s first “heavy-metal” band, finally returns. The band’s first album sold over 2 million copies, and then their second album was released seven years later. This time, after an eight year wait, they will be releasing their 3rd album, an EP on March 28, at a special performance concert in Beijing. It is worth nothing that the EP will only be sold at performances venues, and not in stores, and that there will only be 1000 copies available.
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The one photoshoot Laure Shang doesn’t look creepy in heavy makeup and Elle doesn’t fail. And if you still haven’t seen it enough already – ixiedin and viceofvirtues subbed her MV What? What!, where she unfortunately doesn’t look so classy in the makeup but sounds gorgeous anyways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFfTAXxmgyM
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I couldn’t decide between the two pictures
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Zhang Jiani and Blue Lan posed for Xingrui for their upcoming Hunan TV- drama Si Si Xin Dong. Si Si Xin Dong will air in March, probably following the Ugly Wudi Finale.
The series tells of Zhang Xiaorou (Zhang Jiani), a Qingdao girl who goes to Shanghai to work for a TV station. There, her beautiful hair (be ready for Meteor Shower-esque shampoo commercials) catches the eye of Ouyang Chen (Blue Lan), a romantic and sweet cafe owner. While drama occurs in the TV station, where Xiaorou’s talents brings her to the front of the camera and brought her the love of her boss and jealousy of another host, trouble occurs at home as Hou Qisheng (Super Boy Lu Hu) secretly rents out Ouyang Chen’s apartment to Zhang Xiaorou.
And all this trouble could’ve been avoided if only she had tried out for Hunan station instead of a Shanghai one.
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