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Khaby Lame: The World's Most-Followed TikToker Visits China
The most-followed TikToker in the world visited Nanjing, Beijing and more in 2025, going far on his signature speechless shrug.
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IShowSpeed: The US Streamer Whose China Livestream Broke Records
His 2025 China trip livestream topped 90 million views, showing the world real Chinese streets.
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Raz Galor: Founder of the "Laowai Research Institute"
An Israeli guy, Peking University graduate, leads foreigners interviewing Chinese on the street — videos that went viral.
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Thomas Derksen: The German Son-in-Law Who Speaks Shanghainese
Married to a Shanghai girl and living the lane-house life, his vlogs show millions an "foreign son-in-law's" Chinese life.
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Jerry Kowal: The American Who Films Chinese Food
A bilingual vlogger from Yunnan coffee to street food — he shows millions the real China.
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William Brown: The Professor Who Is "No Outsider" in Xiamen
Teaching at Xiamen University for 30+ years, he wrote to Xi Jinping about China's changes — and the reply made him famous.
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Stephon Marbury: Beijing's City Hero
From NBA All-Star to CBA Beijing Ducks champion (three titles), he even obtained a Chinese green card.
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Ai Fukuhara: The "Porcelain Doll" Everyone in China Loves
A Japanese table-tennis star trained in China from childhood, speaking northeastern dialect and crying when she lost — Chinese fans treat her as one of their own.
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Kos-Read: The "Professional Foreigner" of Chinese TV
An American actor whose Chinese is better than his English, with 60+ Chinese films and TV series.
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Dashan: The Canadian Who Does Crosstalk
A single 1988 CCTV Spring Festival line made all China remember this blue-eyed "laowai".
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Joseph Needham: The Englishman Who Wrote China's Science History
He wrote the 20+ volume Science and Civilisation in China and posed the famous "Needham Question".
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John Rabe: The "Chinese Schindler" of Nanjing
During the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, his Nanjing Safety Zone sheltered about 250,000 Chinese civilians.
