Tag: in mandarin

American Boy, Clay Garner, Becomes China’s Justin

Clay Garner (or Gaoshan in Chinese) might be China’s answer to Justin Bieber. Through the powers of social media, the 18-year-old high school student has become famous among Chinese netizens after he posted homemade videos of himself singing Chinese pop songs on Youku. The videos have captured millions of views and the amateur musician has gained close to 30,000 Weibo followers (that number is still growing!). He has also appeared on a bunch of media, including Beijing TV and 56.com.

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To Improve Kids’ Chinese, Parents Head to Asia

迈克尔-罗默(Michael Roemer)是一位律师,2010年他请了一年的假,把加利福尼亚州奥林达(Orinda)的房子租出去,然后带着妻子和孩子来到了中国西部城市成都。之前他从来没有在国外生活过。Michael Roemer had never lived abroad before he took a one-year leave of absence from his job as an attorney, rented out his family's Orinda, Calif., house, and moved to Chengdu, a city in western China, in 2010 with his wife and two children.

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