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Julie Chen

b. 1970, Queens, NY

Julie Chen is a Chinese American news anchor and television hostTV anchorwoman and host.

After getting a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California, she joined ABC News' Los Angeles Bureau before becoming a reported for a Dayton TV station.In 2002, she became the anchorwoman for CBS' The Early Show after stints as the anchor of the CBS Morning News and as a reporter for the CBS affiliate in New York.

Her trademark catchphrase is "but first".

Non-daytime TV viewers probably know her better as the host "Big Brother" a popular reality TV show which made its first appearance in 2000.

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Connie Chung

b. 1946, Washington, DC

TV news reporter and anchorwoman.

After graduating from the University of Maryland, she started her career at a local TV station in Washington, DC.

Later on she became a national correspondent for CBS, a co-anchor of CBS Evening News, a 20/20 co-anchor for ABC, and hosted her own show at CNN.

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Yue-Sai Kan

b. 1950, Guilin TV hostess, author, and entrepreneur. Starting in 1978, she hosted Looking East for 12 years. The show promoted Eastern culture to the American audience. She did the reverse with One World, which showed different locales around the world to a Chinese audience of 400 million people. She founded her own Yue-Sai Kan Cosmetics company in 1992, now China's leading cosmetics company. After failing to find a doll with Asian features even in China, she founded her own doll company, marketing the Yue-Sai WaWa, China's answer to Barbie. She published several books in Chinese about beauty and etiquette. She has been called China's most famous woman and has been honored by the PRC with her own postage stamp.

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Lisa Ling

b. 1973, Sacramento, CA TV reporter and talk show hostess. Ling's career in television started when she was only 15 on a syndicated teen show Scratch. At 18, she was reporting for Channel One News, which broadcasts to US classrooms. She co-hosted The View, ABC's daily talk show from 1999-2002. She is currently the host of National Geographic Explorer.

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Ben Fong-Torres

b. 1945, Alameda, CA Reporter, DJ, and writer. Fong-Torres is best know for his role as news editor for Rolling Stones Magazine, which allowed him to interview some of rock's greatest stars. He also wrote for a number of other magazines and worked for the San Francisco Chronicle. He published his memoirs in 1983 under the title The Rice Room: From Number Two Son to Rock and Roll. He also wrote Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons, Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll, and The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio.

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The real man Yanxin Xie

He is the real man in China! Do you know him?
He is a common collier in jiaozuo of henan，When his wife was dead,he promised his waif raise her mother and father all their life!
This year is the 32 years when he raise them,Just a promise for his wife!
Let's study toward him! And as a real man!

2007-2-14 10:42 AM

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The real man Yanxin Xie

The real man Yanxin Xie

Image Link: http://t2.baidu.com/it/u=654423840,1297558113&gp=4.jpg
He is the real man in China! Do you know him?
He is a common collier in jiaozuo of henan，When his wife was dead,he promised his waif raise her mother and father all their life!
This year is the 32 years when he raise them,Just a promise for his wife!
Let's study toward him! And as a real man!

xie yanxin and his parents－in－law

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David Ho

b. 1952, Taichung, Taiwan

AIDS researcher.

Ho obtained a degree in physics from Caltech and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Ho is the director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York.

Ho was one of the first scientists to propose that AIDS was caused by a virus although he had never been able to isolate HIV from an HIV+ person. Among an impressive list of seminal contributions to the field, he is perhaps most recognized for the elucidation of the dynamic nature of HIV replication in infected persons. This basic understanding led Dr. Ho and his coworkers to champion combination antiretroviral therapy, including the use of protease inhibitors, that has resulted in dramatic reductions in AIDS-associated mortality in developed countries since 1996. Dr. Ho continues to pursue therapeutic studies that attempt to eradicate HIV. In addition, his research team is now devoting considerable efforts to develop a vaccine to halt the spread of the AIDS epidemic.

Ho shifted his work from treating late in the illness to finding ways to fight the disease early on. Ho devised the method of treating HIV with "cocktails". He theorized that combining the powerful protease inhibitor drugs with other HIV medications would provide a more effective way to treat the disease.

He was named the "1996 Man of the Year" by Time Magazine for his role in developing the "drug cocktail" therapy that has been largely successful in prolonging the life of HIV patients.

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"This is a problem for the world and therefore we're going to solve it."

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Henry C. Lee

b. 1938, China

Forensic scientist. Lee started studied police science in Taiwan and worked as a police captain before coming to the US, eventually earning a PhD in Biochemistry.

Lee is presently the Chief Emeritus of the Connecticut State Police Laboratory and a professor at the University of New Haven.

He has investigated over 4000 homicides and served as expert witness in many high-profile cases.

Famous cases

He has worked on famous cases such as the JonBen閠 Ramsey murder, the O.J. Simpson and Laci Peterson cases, the post-9/11 forensic investigation, and the Washington, DC sniper shootings. He investigated the 3-19 Shooting Incident of President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu. Following the O.J. Simpson case Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr hired Dr. Henry Lee to join his investigation of the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster, who killed himself in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993. He also was consulted on the 1991 death of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro.

He has authored over 20 books on forensic science, including:

* Blood Evidence: How DNA is Revolutionizing the Way We Solve Crimes
* Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes
* Famous Crimes Revisited: From Sacco-Vanzetti to O. J. Simpson

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Bai Ling

b. 1970, Szechwan

Actress. She starter her career at 14 as an entertainer in the People's Liberation Army.

She later performed in the theatre and film before her first starring role in 1989. She went to New York University to study and played a minor role in The Crow.

Her first major American starring role came with Red Corner, a thriller which painted an unflattering picture of China's legal system. As a result, Bai Ling had her Chinese passport cancelled and lost roles in two Chinese projects.

She played minor roles in Wild, Wild West and Anna and the King.

She has also made guest appearance on several TV programs and starred in the The Lost Empire mini-series.

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Jackie Chan
b. 1954, Hong Kong

World-renowned kung-fu actor and director.

Chan trained for ten years at a Peking Opera school starting at the age of seven. He worked as a stuntman for many years before getting starring roles. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master propelled him to fame with the combination of humor and daring stunts that would become his trademark.

He directed his first film in The Young Master and directed and scripted many of his subsequent movies. He appeared in a few American movies without much success but his Hong Kong films continued to do well. These included Legend of the Drunken Master. Project A,Police Story, Supercop. Operation Condor. and Operation Condor 2: Armour of the Gods.

His first major American success came in 1996 with Rumble in the Bronx. It would be followed by Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, and The Tuxedo.

Chan published his autobiography, titled Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action, was published in 1999.

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Rosalind Chao (Chao Jyalin)

b. 1949, Anaheim, CA

TV actress.

She appeared in M*A*S*H and Different Strokes. She played the recurring role of Keiko O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also appeared in The Joy Luck Club.

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Joan Chen

b. 1961, Shanghai

Movie actress and director.

She first appeared in several Chinese movies before coming to the US for further study. Her first starring role in an American movie was in Tai-pan, the adaptation of the Clavell novel, quickly followed by Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor. She also appeared in the Twin Peaks TV mini-series.

She went to Hong Kong to star in Temptation of a Monk but returned to Hollywood to appear in On Deadly Ground and Judge Dredd .

She turned to directing her own project in 1998 with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.

It won critical acclaim and enabled her to direct her first Hollywood film Autumn in New York.

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Chow Yun Fat

b. 1955, Hong Kong

Movie actor famed for his personification of cool character in Hong Kong and, more recently, Hollywood action films.

He started his career in Hong Kong TV but switched to films in the mid-1970s. His first major breakthrough came with John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, the start of the popular Hong Kong gangster film genre. He would star in its two sequels (A Better Tomorrow II, A Better Tomorrow III) but also play comedic and romantic roles at the same time in movies such as Dream Lovers and Once a Thief. However, what really established his international reputation were action films like Prison on Fire, The Killer, and Hard-Boiled.

He finally starred in his first American films in 1998 with The Replacement Killers, followed by the The Corruptors and Anna and the King. In 2000, he starred in his first martial arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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Chen Kaige
b. 1952, Beijing

Movie director. His direction of the movie Yellow Earth put the world on notice of the arrival of China's "fifth generation" filmmakers (the post Cultural Revolution generation). He would direct a few other films including Life on a String but major commercial would had to wait until the release of Farewell My Concubine. He would follow with Temptress Moon and The Emperor and the Assassin. Chen directed his first American movie in 2002 with Killing Me Softly.

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Ang Lee

b. 1954, Taiwan

Movie director. The first few films directed by Lee were about Chinese family relationship. The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman were very successful in the foreign film circuits. His skillful handling of human emotion in these two films earned him the opportunity to direct Sense and Sensibility.his transition into big time Hollywood filmmaking. He would go on to direct The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil. In 2000, he released Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, an epic romance and martial arts fantasy which became the most successful foreign film released in the US. It also received 14 Oscar nominations and earned four Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film. His latest film is The Hulk.

For more info, see Ang Lee, by Ellen Cheshire.

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Justin Lin

b. 1972, Taipei Movie director. Justin was raised in Orange County, CA and attended UCLA, where he graduated with a BA and MFA in film direction. In his first two movie efforts he collaborated with fellow student Quentin Lee in Flow (as a cinematographer) and later in Shopping for Fangs, which co-directed. However, it was his first solo effort that gained him attention and a distribution deal. Partially funding his effort by maxing out credit cards, Justin wrote the script and directed Better Luck Tomorrow, a critically acclaimed film about a group of Asian American high-schoolers who turn to crime.

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Tsui Hark

b. 1950, Guanzhou

Film actor, director, and producer. Tsui was raised in Vietnam and Hong Kong and studied film in the US. He introduced Hollywood-style special effects with Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain. His production company, Film Workshop, is one of the most successful ones in Hong Kong. His first major international success came in 1987 when he produced A Chinese Ghost Story , a movie he would remake ten years later as an animated film. He directed the hit Once Upon a Time in China and its first sequel. As a producer, he also enjoyed major success with A Better Tomorrow and Swordsman II. Tsui has also directed two American movies with Jean Claude Van Damme, Double Team and Knock Off. His latest film is Time and Tide.

For more info, see The Cinema of Tsui Hark, by Lisa Morton.

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Originally posted by changabula at 2007-2-14 16:52
Bai Ling

b. 1970, Szechwan

Actress. She starter her career at 14 as an entertainer in the People's Liberation Army.

She later performed in the theatre and film be ...

Ahemm, I object to this... she made offending remarks when approached by Hollywood. She condemn China's policy just to get a role in western film. It's only in recent years that she change her stance, after she realized that she has to embrace motherland to make money.

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Good man of Nanking

http://www.answers.com/topic/john-rabe

China's Schindler.

John Rabe

John Rabe (November 23, 1882 – January 5, 1950) was a German businessman who sought to rescue more than 250,000 Chinese from slaughter during the Nanjing Massacre.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Rabe pursued a career in business and went to Africa for several years. In 1908 he left for China, and in 1910 he began work for the Siemens AG China Corporation in Beijing and later Nanjing.

On November 22, 1937, as the Imperial Japanese Army advanced on Nanjing, Rabe, along with other foreign nationals, organized the International Committee and drew up Nanjing Safety Zone to provide Chinese refugees with food and shelter upon the impending Japanese slaughter. He explained his reasons thus: "..there is a question of morality here.. I cannot bring myself for now to betray the trust these people have put in me, and it is touching to see how they believe in me." The zones were located on all of the foreign embassies and at Nanjing University. Rabe also opened up his properties to help 650 more refugees. The following massacre would kill more than 250,000 people, while Rabe and his zone administrators tried frantically to stop the atrocities. Although he tried to appeal to the Japanese by using his Nazi membership credentials, this had little effect.

On February 28, 1938 Rabe left Nanjing, traveling to Shanghai and then back to Germany. He showed films and photographs of Japanese atrocities in lecture presentations in Berlin and wrote to Hitler to use his influence to persuade the Japanese to stop any more inhumane violence. Instead, Rabe was detained and interrogated by the Gestapo. Due to the intervention of Siemens AG, he was released. He was allowed to keep evidence of the massacre, excluding the film, but was not allowed to lecture or write on the subject. Rabe would continue working for Siemens, which posted him briefly to the safety of Afghanistan. Until 1945 Rabe worked in the Berlin headquarter of the company.

After the war, Rabe was denounced for his Nazi Party membership and arrested by the Russians first and then by the British. However, investigations exonerated him of any wrongdoing. He was formally declared "de-Nazified" by the Allies in June 1946 but thereafter lived in poverty. Rabe was partly supported by the monthly food and money parcels sent by the Chinese government for his actions during the Rape of Nanjing.

In 1950, Rabe died of a stroke. In 1997 his tombstone was moved from Berlin to Nanjing where it received a place of honour at the massacre memorial site.

His war-time diaries are published in English as The Good German of Nanking (original German title: Der gute Deutsche von Nanking).

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