Modern-dressed Liu Shishi doesn't seem so out of place next to the two Qing princes, but will her modern character Ruoxi be able to do the same?
is week. Starring Liu Shishi as a modern girl, the drama, based on the popular book of the same name, carries the main character into the reign of the Kangxi Emperor and follows her interactions with the various princes. Despite their unfortunate bald heads, the drama features a handsome row of actors, including Nicky Wu (4th Prince), Kevin Cheng (8th), Han Dong (9th), Ye Zuxin (10th, and Tangren’s own Yuan Hong (13th) and Lin Gengxi(14th).
From the Goddess jiejie of DGSD to the Dragon gugu of RoCH and to her newest role as a ghost in A Chinese Fairy Tale, Liu Yifei in white has always evoked images of the purest beauty.
To be honest, compared to Shawn Dou’s Jack Sparrow or Yang Yang’s L, this is far from the best photoshoot of the Sohu Tribute Series, but Liu Yifei is just too gorgeous that this needed its own post. See the other photoshoots in the photoshoot and the series, including tributes to Avatar, Twilight, the Matrix, the Phantom of the Opera, etc. here.
Laure Shang met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper this month in Canada
In addition to performing in California and Montreal and meeting with musicians in New York, multilingual singer Laure Shang Wenjie also met with the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Hunter and Nevada governor Lorraine Hunter as a part of her trip to North America this month. I love Laure Shang to bits, but I have no idea what she would say to him and vice-versa. I hope Hu Jintao gets a photo op with Lady Gaga soon. Or at least Adam Lambert, if we go the pop idol route.
Edit: Apparently, she has also been greeted by Tony Blair’s wife, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and the Belize Royal Family in the past year… Did she go back to being a translator or something?
In her first starring film role, Meteor Shower star Zheng Shuang plays a tomboyish X-treme sports fan opposite MS costar Zhang Han.
TV couple favorite Zhang Han and Zheng Shuang is projecting their relationship onto the silver screen with movie No Limits. Directed by the director of Kung Fu Hiphop, No Limits is a movie focused on extreme sports. This will be Zheng Shuang’s first lead role in a film, and Zhang Han’s second. More pictures below the cut.
Zhang Jie combines music and painting in his new sand painting performance.
For the Hunan TV Lantern Festival Concert, singer Zhang Jie sung while lying on the ground, coordinating with displays of sand painting projected on the ground for a creative and beautiful performance.
After participating in Super Girls at the age of 16, Huang Yali has been continuously changing styles in her various albums. Her new album proves to be her best so far.
Finally joining her shijie’s Fan Fan, Angela Zhang and Claire Kuo, 21 -year-old Huang Yali released a new album that shows off her clear voice that seems to be signature of Linfair artists.
The new album include five songs composed by Wang Yajun, Linfair’s top songwriter who is best known for writing Angela Zhang’s Invisible Wings 隱形的翅膀. Of the five, 你离开我的种种/The reasons why you left me is penned by Jay Chou’s lyricist Fang Wenshan. The rest, with lyrics by Wang Yajun, are, Same City 同城, 善良Kindness, Owl calling for love 猫头鹰呼叫爱情, and Outdated Trip 过期的旅行. The album further include “want you to smile,” composed by JJ Lin. You can listen to the entire album on Baidu here and buy it on YesAsia here
New Dream of Red Chambers couple Yang Yang and Jiang Mengjie another wonderful photoshoot together, this time for Valentine’s Day. The two’s new drama, Melody of Youth that co-stars Leo Ku, Eva Huang and Zhou Mi and Heechul of Super Junior, is currently airing on some stations, and will be available legally on youku.com on March 10th.
Feng Shaofeng and Yang Mi celebrates the success of the drama in a waltz.
Dubbed the “Qing dynasty Meteor Garden,” Hunan TV/Yu Zheng productions drama Palace started with a bang as it beat Meteor Shower’s opening episode record with a viewership percentage of 8.24%. Since then, the viewership have been steadily increasing, hitting 11.79% by the 10th.
Starring Yang Mi (Chinese Paladin 3, Schemes of a Beauty), the series follows the adventures of modern girl Qingchuan as she travels back in time to the Qing dynasty. Armed with knowledge of modern technology and with the mindset of a modern independent woman, Qingchuan stirs up plenty of trouble in the palace of Kangxi as she first convinces 1st prince that she’s magical to avoid marrying him. Once the 1st prince is convince, Qingchuan quickly makes enemies of the 8th prince (Feng Shaofeng) and his followers. This results, as idol dramas requires, him falling in love with her. A huge fan of the Emperor Yongzheng, Qingchuan instead immediately falls for the then 4th prince (Mickey He). Unfortunately, all he wants is power, and any love for him seems to be only used as a way to achieve power, as demonstrated by the status of Qingchuan’s poor best friend and spy for 4th – Suyan (Tong Liya).
“If in the past, charity/nonprofit work was a dream of mine; in the future, it will be a career.”
– Han Hong
If you follow celebrities, on weibo (Chinese tweeter, but better), then you’ve probably seen at least half of the celebs retweeting images of child beggars. The project, asking weibo users to upload pictures and location of any begging children they see, has been so far the most widespread weibo campaign recently, and has brought on the attention of artists from Faye Wong to Han Hong.
In the annual Two Meetings to be held in March, singer Han Hong, who has been on the front lines of aid in many recent natural disasters and has shown a fierce dedication to nonprofit work in the past years, is currently in the process of planning a law against child kidnapping at the meetings. Working with a group of lawyers and activists, Han Hong hopes the new law will tighten punishment for kidnapping children, to increase rescue efforts for kidnapped children, and to allow for a great number of and quality of orphanages.
In China, it is illegal for children to beg as a way to prevent child kidnapping for the purpose. The weibo campaign, which begun on January the 25th, hopes to both raise awareness for the problem and help parents rediscover their kidnapped children. Since the campaign has begun on the 25th, over 2000 photos of child beggars have been posted by weibo users and half a million weibo’s on it. One family was able to reunite with their kidnapped son after finding a photo of him on weibo.
Han Hong also released her newest song promoting nonprofit work, Seeking for you amongst the crowds:
