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Jun 24, 2015 · Lou Jing was born in Shanghai to a Chinese mother and an African American father. She never met her father as he left China before she was born, and so was brought up by her mother in a single-parent family. In 2009, Lou Jing entered the Shanghai Dragon TV’s talent show Go Oriental Angel!
Dec 22, 2009 · Lou Jing's appearance on talent show raises issues of race in China. More than 90 percent of China's population is Han Chinese. Shanghai, China (CNN) -- It all started with the lure of the glitz ...
Apr 14, 2018 · In 2009, an extremely beautiful but not very talented blasian girl named 娄婧 went on one of China's singing competitions. Everyone was harsh on her singing, a...
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May 19, 2014 · This article examines Chinese cyberspace debates over the racial and national identity of a television show contestant Lou Jing, a biracial woman of Chinese and African American descent.
Dec 13, 2009 · By The Editors. December 13, 2009 8:00 pm. Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Lou Jing, center, a contestant in a Chinese talent show this summer, caused an intense debate in China because she is of mixed-race parentage. With trade and commerce drawing ever larger numbers of foreigners to China’s cities, tensions have become ...
Nov 15, 2009 · Racial controversy is on the rise in China because of 20-year-old Lou Jing, a mixed Chinese girl, who won a very popular talent show, Go! Oriental Angel. Next week, President Obama is visiting China, so this racial controversy couldn’t come at a more awkward time. Lou Jing had never experienced discrimination until this past August […]
Glorifying Lou Jing’s mixed heritage proved to be too big a temptation and pretty soon, the show was featuring Lou Jing, whether she liked it or not. A single Chinese mother struggling to raise a mixed child in a conservative and oftentimes racist society. The marketing department must’ve popped open some bubbly at their good fortune.
