Are you my boss? My workplace is fine with people surfing the internet during working hours.I can imagine there's plenty of people for whom that would also be somewhat NSFW.Well then shouldn't you, and they, be working instead of looking at metafilter?
Chiu Yu-cheng (邱于承), nicknamed “Little Fatty Brother” (小胖弟), attracted public attention last year when he imitated Jolin Tsai’s (蔡依林) dancing moves of her song Honey Trap (美人計).So, he has a Facebook page where he posts his performance and TV appearance vids because he's something of a little celebrity in his country and culture... and he's apparently gone viral, though maybe if he were displaying just as much talent in gender normative way, even with sexualized moves or lyrics (I don't know? Michael Jackson pelvic thrust and crotch-grab?) it probably wouldn't have.
Yu-cheng has support from his mom and four elder sisters, who helped setting up the “stage,” applying makeup and choosing music.
They posted the latest video clip onto the Internet three days ago, which has received numerous praises.
“Certainly we hope he can be invited to perform in the US [just like “Taiwan’s Susan Boyle” Lin Yu-chun (林育群)]. He really loves dancing, but our dad doesn’t like him always cross-dressing,” one of his sisters said.
I watched three of those videos of that kid dancing, and I didn't see any chinese characters to interpret or misinterpret.His facebook page is in Chinese, apparently
Here is the order of the fan zone to help cheer on the order of the place with recommendations of any inappropriate remarks and criticism moderator will delete all, please self-love! fat free brother will personally reply to everyone Oh!! Thank youWhich doesn't tell you that much about his motivations or whatever, at least not that I can tell from the auto translation.
And after a mile and a half of discussion someone has to weigh in with "the burlesque kid is weird"?Don't be such a whiner.
Why did you even say that? Just to be part of the conversation? He's weird, huh? What amazing fucking insight.
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posted by Rhomboid at 9:49 PM on May 30, 2011 [9 favorites] In Taiwan, male cross-dressing performance played a very important role in the early development of traditional Taiwanese theater—about a hundred years ago, it was found in almost every theatrical genre. Male cross-dressing performance in traditional Taiwanese theater is becoming rare, while in the meantime, a new performance context for male cross-dressing, the fanchuan show 反串秀 [male cross-dressing show], has made a big impact on Taiwan’s entertainment industry since the mid-1990s.This suggests to me that there is perhaps a somewhat different attitude than our (mostly) Western ideas and expectations. If the fanchuan performers have been popularly featured on TV and in fan magazines, etc., I'm thinking that the idea of a little boy who wants to emulate popular female performers is maybe not as startling as it is in some other cultures.
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From various Taiwanese textual and visual media, I learned that Redtop Arts was one of the hottest showcases in Taiwan’s entertainment industry. Following the popularity of Redtop, other male cross-dressing troupes established themselves one after another to take part in this new trend. Redtop Arts members, as well as other professional male cross-dressing performers, were frequent guests on Taiwan’s televised game and talk shows. The visibility and popularity of fanchuan show in the late 1990s became so well-known that it became a new Taiwanese cultural phenomenon. The media called this new upsurge of show business fanchuan rechao 反串熱潮 [the great mass fervor of male cross-dressing performance].
posted by fourcheesemac at 5:41 PM on May 29, 2011