I haven’t written up a post about Asia in a while, so here’s a mishmash of stuff. Nothing photography-related here.
- A movie that’s dear to my heart (can you guess why?): Ip Man 1 now available on Hulu. I have both Ip Man 1 and 2 if anyone wants to borrow it. Don’t forget about The Legend is Born: Ip Man, where there’s a scene that includes Ip Man’s real-life son.
- Jet Li has become a Singaporean citizen.
- Chinese actress Yao Chen bumps Oprah off the top ten most followed microbloggers list. Yao Chen has 4,936,495 followers on her Weibo right now. Here’s the ten most followed twitter users.
- Top 10 Chinese universities that turn out the richest alumni:
- Peking University – 79
- Tsinghua University – 70
- Zhejiang University – 66
- Fudan University – 46
- Renmin University of China – 30
- Shanghai Jiaotong University – 25
- Sun Yat-sen University – 22
- Nanjing University – 20
- South China University of Technology – 18
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University – 17 (tie)
High five to Christiana for this gem:
Talk to me, Goose.