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Song Xiao Bo and students from Shanghai School for the Deaf

Originally uploaded by MFinChina

Song Xiaobo is profoundly deaf and speaks through sign language. He made big headlines last year when he took part in a televised national talent competition. It was mostly for finding new pop stars, and part of the program was that you had to sing karaoke. He came out and “sang” in sign language. Almost nobody had seen that before, and the viewing public was floored. He came in fourth overall. He’s also good at dance, martial arts, and fashion design. When asked by an interviewer why he learned to make clothing, he said it was to make new clothes for his mother, who didn’t have enough money to buy things for herself. He appeared today at a promotional event at the mall near my house today and accepted a donation check that Cold Stone Creamery (an ice cream store that just opened a branch there) gave to Shanghai’s School for the Deaf. Please forgive the graininess and weird color of this photo. I took it from afar and had to fool with it a lot.

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