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AsiaOne
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
No joke: Woman makes out with Xiao Zhan's standee in Malaysia shopping mall, Entertainment News
A woman was spotted making out in a shopping mall in Malaysia — with a live-sized standee of Chinese actor Xiao Zhan. In a social media post yesterday (July 7), a young woman with pink hair is seen cozying up to a standee of the 33-year-old singer-actor, who was recently announced the global ambassador of Honor N smartphone. At the beginning of the Reel, she places a light pink scarf over the board placed outside an electronics shop, and proceeds to admire his face, giving him a smooch on the cheek. She then touched his shoulder, caressed his face and stroked his head, before taking out a mobile phone from her pocket and attempting to take a selfie with the standee while on tiptoes. However, her self-indulgent moment was interrupted when a staff member of the shop approached and shook her head, stopping her from proceeding any further. @ohmedia Alamak…fan delulu buat hal lagi ke? ♬ original sound - Oh! Media Netizens commented that the location seemed to be the shopping mall Suria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur and that probably "life is stressful" for her. One of them wrote: "Oh my gosh! I feel awkward for her." This is not the first time Xiao Zhan's standee has been 'violated' in recent weeks. In another Reel posted on social media on July 1, a woman is also seen hauling a similar life-sized standee of him to the KLCC LRT station in Kuala Lumpur. After boarding the LRT, she touched his face and head before another commuter accidentally knocked into the standee. With quick reflexes, the woman checked the board before confronting the commuter aggressively. Towards the end of the Reel, she quickly went to check on the standee again, touching every part of the board to make sure it wasn't damaged. @ohmedia Penumpang terkejut lihat wanita bawa standee masuk MRT. Dia curi ke standee tu?! ♬ original sound - Oh! Media Xiao Zhan debuted in 2015 as part of the now defunct Chinese idol group X Nine. He shot to fame in 2019 after portraying Wei Wuxian in xianxia drama The Untamed (2019) and was most recently seen in the well-acclaimed costume drama The Legend of Zang Hai (2025). In China, his fans have been collecting live-sized standees of him over the years, including those from brand endorsements. On Chinese second-hand sales platform Goofish, live-sized standees of Xiao Zhan, including the latest Honour N smartphone standee, are sold between 30 and 500 Chinese yuan (S$5.30 and S$89). [[nid:719311]] No part of this article can be reproduced without permission from AsiaOne.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Meng Ziyi was once rejected for being too pretty?
4 Jul – Meng Ziyi recently sparked mixed reactions when she revealed that she had a hard time getting jobs in the early days of her career because she was "too beautiful". The actress, known for dramas like "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and "The Untamed", recently sat down for an interview, where she revealed that she was rejected for a project in the early years because her beauty does not suit the role. Admitting that it stunned her, Meng said, "if you say that my acting is not good enough or that I am not known enough, that I can admit. But you said that I am too pretty to act?" Meng said that the comment made her feel uneasy to this day, and that beauty should not be a sin. "You can say that I am not suited for the role or that you think I can't handle it at this stage or that you want a more famous actress. But when you tell me that I can't do it because I am too pretty, it creates a doubt in me, like, is there anything wrong with being beautiful?" she said. The interview had since sparked heated discussions among netizens, with one saying, "There are many beautiful actresses in the industry. Her appearance is not that outrageous, right?" Another posted, "Maybe her acting skill wasn't so good and that the crew was just trying to give her a way out." (Photo Source: Meng Ziyi IG)
Sydney Morning Herald
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Chinese cops cuffing erotica writers in perverse money-raising exercise
'In my 20 years of life, I never thought my first flight would be to a Lanzhou police station.' So wrote one young woman who, in the past few weeks, says she was ordered to leave her home and report to authorities in the faraway capital of Gansu province, in the parched northwest. Her supposed crime was profiting from posting erotic stories on a website dedicated to danmei – online fiction that depicts romantic and sexual relationships between men, but which is largely written by (and for) straight women. Most authors earn a pittance for posting danmei online, but a lucky few inspired hit TV shows (though with the naughty bits excised) before a crackdown on making them in recent years. One such programme, The Untamed, has racked up more than 10 billion views since it first aired in 2019. But danmei writers are also attracting unwanted attention from the authorities as part of a troubling trend. Cops from the sticks are finding ways to slap charges on Chinese who have never once come within a thousand miles of their towns. In China, tackling entrepreneurs and private firms in other forces' jurisdictions to make money is known as 'fishing in distant seas'. In March, Li Qiang, China's prime minister, said 'profit-driven law enforcement' had to stop. But scooping up writers of erotica continues. Loading Though Chinese authorities are deeply conservative on matters of sex and sexuality, several lawyers and danmei writers suspect that money-raising may be the real goal. Chinese police forces depend upon a mix of national and local funding. But the country's property crash has left local governments in the lurch as they can no longer rake in so much revenue from selling land-use rights to developers. Meanwhile, some local authorities have grown increasingly adept at finding other funding: last year China's tax haul declined by about three per cent, while money raised by fines and confiscations rose by 15 per cent. In recent months, at least four other danmei writers say they were approached by cops from distant parts of China. In December, police from a poor, rural part of Anhui province announced the results of an investigation into 36 people for online obscenity and raised 11 million yuan ($2.3 million) in fines. They sentenced one well-known danmei author to more than four years in prison. She had to hand over all her earnings from writing – about 1.8 million yuan ($384,000) – and pay another 1.8 million yuan as a fine. 'Why are some people who commit sexual assaults in real life not punished so severely?' asks one erotic writer, pointedly. 'People should have full freedom of thought, including freedom of sexual fantasies,' writes Chen Bi of the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, who is offering legal aid to arrested authors.
The Age
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Chinese cops cuffing erotica writers in perverse money-raising exercise
'In my 20 years of life, I never thought my first flight would be to a Lanzhou police station.' So wrote one young woman who, in the past few weeks, says she was ordered to leave her home and report to authorities in the faraway capital of Gansu province, in the parched northwest. Her supposed crime was profiting from posting erotic stories on a website dedicated to danmei – online fiction that depicts romantic and sexual relationships between men, but which is largely written by (and for) straight women. Most authors earn a pittance for posting danmei online, but a lucky few inspired hit TV shows (though with the naughty bits excised) before a crackdown on making them in recent years. One such programme, The Untamed, has racked up more than 10 billion views since it first aired in 2019. But danmei writers are also attracting unwanted attention from the authorities as part of a troubling trend. Cops from the sticks are finding ways to slap charges on Chinese who have never once come within a thousand miles of their towns. In China, tackling entrepreneurs and private firms in other forces' jurisdictions to make money is known as 'fishing in distant seas'. In March, Li Qiang, China's prime minister, said 'profit-driven law enforcement' had to stop. But scooping up writers of erotica continues. Loading Though Chinese authorities are deeply conservative on matters of sex and sexuality, several lawyers and danmei writers suspect that money-raising may be the real goal. Chinese police forces depend upon a mix of national and local funding. But the country's property crash has left local governments in the lurch as they can no longer rake in so much revenue from selling land-use rights to developers. Meanwhile, some local authorities have grown increasingly adept at finding other funding: last year China's tax haul declined by about three per cent, while money raised by fines and confiscations rose by 15 per cent. In recent months, at least four other danmei writers say they were approached by cops from distant parts of China. In December, police from a poor, rural part of Anhui province announced the results of an investigation into 36 people for online obscenity and raised 11 million yuan ($2.3 million) in fines. They sentenced one well-known danmei author to more than four years in prison. She had to hand over all her earnings from writing – about 1.8 million yuan ($384,000) – and pay another 1.8 million yuan as a fine. 'Why are some people who commit sexual assaults in real life not punished so severely?' asks one erotic writer, pointedly. 'People should have full freedom of thought, including freedom of sexual fantasies,' writes Chen Bi of the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, who is offering legal aid to arrested authors.
AsiaOne
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
The Untamed actor Wang Zhuocheng in Singapore, visits Merlion and Jewel Changi Airport, Entertainment News
Here's another celebrity who was in town recently. In an Instagram post uploaded on May 24, Chinese actor Wang Zhuocheng shared pictures of his recent visit to Singapore. The 28-year-old, who portrayed Jiang Cheng in the 2019 Chinese TV series The Untamed, stopped by the Merlion Park and Jewel Changi Airport, where he took pictures with the Merlion, Marina Bay Sands and the Jewel Rain Vortex. In one of the pictures, Zhuocheng did the iconic pose where he "drank" from the Merlion's mouth earning cheeky reactions from fans in the comments. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marius 汪卓成 (@marius_cheng) One wrote: "Welcome to Singapore. Stay longer please." With Lady Gaga's recent Mayhem tour stop in Singapore, fans also wondered if he had made the trip to attend the pop icon's show. He also shared the photos on his Xiaohongshu account, where he remarked in his caption: "Walking, walking, walking in Singapore. The greenery here is really beautiful! But I perspired a lot after walking just two steps." Zhuocheng stars in the upcoming Chinese drama Love and Crown, which will be broadcast on Youku. [[nid:718386]]
