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Linsanity Heads East, Linfects China and Taiwan
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| February 15, 2012
| Bruce Arthur
Posted on 02/15/2012 1:53:05 PM PST by C19fan
America can’t get enough of Jeremy Lin — nor can anyone else. Less than a week after leading the Knicks to a five-game winning streak, Taiwanese-American point guard is the most searched item on Baidu, a leading Chinese search engine, and he already has a quarter million followers on Weibo, a Twitter-like microblog. Everybody, it seems, is talking about the Harvard-educated wunderkind.
In Asia at least, most comments seem pleased to see a high-profile Chinese-American in sports. Wang Lee-hom, a Taiwanese-American celebrity with over 13 million followers on Weibo, tweeted in Chinese Tuesday: “Perhaps you all guessed what today’s Weibo is going to be? It’s about the NBA’s first ABC [American-born Chinese] Jeremy Lin! Representing Chinese right now in the U.S., breaking many long-held stereotypes, opening Americans’ eyes!”
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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: knicks; lin; nba
Is there a Taiwanese animation of Linsanity??? ;)
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posted on
02/15/2012 1:53:09 PM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Never heard of him until I read this headline here.
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posted on
02/15/2012 1:54:29 PM PST
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: C19fan
He’s also a born-again Christian, wants to inspire people like Tim Tebow has, according to an interview.
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posted on
02/15/2012 1:58:41 PM PST
by
chae
(I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
To: C19fan
Maybe a quarter billion new Knicks fans?
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posted on
02/15/2012 2:19:12 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: C19fan
All these bad puns are Lin-furiating...
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posted on
02/15/2012 2:21:27 PM PST
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Common sense isn't a blessing. It's a curse because you have to deal with those who don't have it.)
To: chae
He’s also a born-again Christian, wants to inspire people like Tim Tebow has, according to an interview.I wonder if the ChiComs are going to want to put the lid on "Linsanity" in China, after they realize that.
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02/15/2012 2:21:35 PM PST
by
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posted on
02/15/2012 2:33:59 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
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