As Wuhan opens up on April 7th, actor and Wuhan-native Wang Kai voices a story of medical professionals, workers, and ordinary people coming together to pull through in the 76 days that Wuhan was under quarantine.
Wang Kai, whose mother had planned to visit him on set for Chinese New Year before being stuck in Wuhan, had previously donated 2million RMB to Wuhan hospitals and charities in addition to dozens of ventilators. He also recorded for the cubicle hospital radio service to support those in them.
As Wuhan lists zero new cases and all 14 temporary ark hospitals have closed down, singer-philanthropist Han Hong released a letter of thanks for her team of celebrities who have been working themselves to purchase and transport supplies to Wuhan over the past 57 days. The team has sent 200 negative pressure ambulances, seven ECMO’s, 1849 ventilators, 363374 protective suits, 1.5 million pairs of gloves, 3.5 million medical waste bags, 4 million N95and surgical masks, 55k sanitary pads, among many other supplies.
Many of these celebrities went to factories themselves to secure supplies, while Yi Yangqianxi even requested to go to Wuhan himself to literally move supplies before Han Hong hanged up him.
Han Hong announced that in the future, the team will instead focus on helping families affected by COVID-19.
Tencent recently filmed a series of documentaries featuring celebrities raising awareness for non-profit causes. Wang Kai, Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan, Deng Lun, Rocket Girls, R1SE raised awareness for causes from reducing ocean pollution to building libraries in underserved communities. Each documentary also came with corporations matching donations by fans.
Wang Kai teaches you how to reduce plastic waste to reduce ocean pollution
This gif set of precious Wang Junkai with precious deers. More here.
As a United Nationals Goodwill Ambassador, singer-actor Wang Junkai recently visited Keny for the UN Environment Assembly and visited wildlife preserves, ocean clean-up programs, and a marine wildlife hospital while there. Here’s his mini-documentary of his journey English-subbed:
I ask myself, “What would you do if you had more time?” You could have done so much more if only you had time.
Ming Cheng is best known as the handsome and diligent butler of the well-connected Ming family in 1940s Shanghai. He also happens to work for the KMT intelligence agency – and as an undercover operative for the Communist Party of China.
The fictional star of TV drama The Disguiser, a hugely popular spy drama that aired in China last year, Ming Cheng quickly became beloved by viewers as a brave and resourceful patriot. He was a character whose very appeal seemed to spring from the dramatic period in which he resided – until, that is, this spring, when Ming walked out from the screen into the real world.
In May, news began to spread online about the construction of a 1.5-kilometer dirt road in an impoverished, mountainous area of Sichuan Province that was to be a boon for the village, allowing for students to attend school and the local economy to develop. The project in and of itself wasn’t so unusual – what was, was the plaque naming its benefactor. It read, “Donator: Ming Cheng.”
Fans of the show were abuzz – who really donated that road on behalf of Ming Cheng?
I cried when I first saw news of this because Ming Cheng is so close to my heart, and it was incredibly touching to see that a fan chose to do this in his name. Since then, a few of Wang Kai’s fans have individually donated roads in the names of Xiao Jingyan from Nirvana in Fire, Fang Mengwei from All Quiet in Peking, and a school library in the name of Qi Yong from Educated Youth in his home-province.
More on Global Times’ article on fans of Chris Li Yuchun, Lu Han, Kris Wu, and TF Boys doing charity here.
P.S. The caption is a hint to the next Disguiser Discussions post.
Four of the biggest female singers in cpop, hailed from four different regions of cpop, came together for Project WAO theme song. The song titled We Are One or Women as One features A-Mei (张惠妹), Na Ying (那英), Sandy Lam (林忆莲), and Tanya Chua (蔡健雅). The charity concert for Project WAO was held this last weekend in support of abused women and young girls.
Given how cute these photos are, can you just imagine how cute their family would be?
Way-too-cute couple Feng Shaofeng, Ni Ni spread their love with a microfilm through Huayi Brothers and Elle. The two were ambassadors for Huayi Brothers’ free film program for underprivileged regions to expand the kids’ horizons.
The documentary microfilm below, and more photos from Elle below the cut.
…and this ladies and gentlemen is why Hu Ge is an actor and not an artist
For Children’s Day, Hu Ge took a break from his theater performances to visit a primary school on the Tibetan Plateau to hang out with the children for the holiday.
Hu Ge currently stars in a Shanghainese dialect play “Forever Yin Xueyan 永远的尹雪艳”, which is probably only showing in Shanghai theater houses. He also starred in the controversial costume drama Da Mo Yao 大漠谣 (Romance of the Desert) with Liu Shishi and Eddie Peng. There are rumors on the internet about the drama being banned by SARFT, but I can’t find any official sources as of now.
In addition to Hu Ge’s lead role in Da Mo Yao, he will also be making a special appearance in iPartment 4. One of the regular cast member of the popular sitcom recently signed with Tangren – Sun Yizhou 孙艺洲 is now one of the beautiful peopled stored at Tangren Film Continue reading →
It seems like the norm of Hollywood to visit Africa in order to adopt babies or to have babies. Li Bingbing, confirmed to join the cast of Transformers 4, seems to have picked this up. She is now the proud mother of two children of Africa – two African baby elephants that is.
Li Binging took a trip to Kenya as an UNEP Goodwill Ambassador. She visited the Samburu National Reserve and a baby elephant orphanage in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where she adopted two baby elephants “Ajabu” and “Barsilnga”. Continue reading →
I added a page on the side bar for Philippine Flood Relief Donation. Disasters have really taken their toll on Asia this year and we should all come together to help. Indonesia Earthquake Relief and how you can help the victims of Typhoon Ketsana added! Please help anyway you can.
