The story started when a Buzzfeed editor lost his iPhone in an East Village bar in February of last year and blossomed into the Sino-American romance of the century, and probably the most up-lifting and altogether unlikely China story that we can remember. It features Apple products, global crime networks, human flesh search engines, the draw of instant celebrity, and Ellen DeGeneres. Who can resist the cross-cultural romance of Matt Stopera and Brother Orange?
Joining Kaiser, Jeremy and David us to talk about this phenomenon and its backstory and are two guests who’ve seen it unfold from the inside: Matt Sheehan, China Correspondent for the Huffington Post, who wrote about the saga, and Cecilia Miao, agent for Brother Orange and creator of Channel C, a community for Chinese students who have studied abroad.
Recommendations:
- Shameless
- The Pattern of the Chinese Past, Mark Elvin (Stanford University Press,1973)
Um, I just looked at my phone's photo stream and it's full of pics of some guy and an orange tree I def didn't take. pic.twitter.com/s8srj6HCga
— Matt Stopera (@mattstopera) February 5, 2015