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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked in fluent Mandarin Chinese in a Q&A session at Tsinghua University in China, which brought down the house. Here are some reports about this event.
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A Chinese Net user ironically twitted online, saying "Zuckerberg spoke Chinese for 30 minutes straight. He has been learning Chinese AND running a company, but you guys are burying yourselves in Facebook. "
Mark Zuckerberg said that he went to the northern Chinese city Tianjin because he wanted to be "a student of Huo Yuanjia", a legendary Kung Fu master in the early 1900s. His life was adapted into movies and TV series a number of times, including Jet Li's 2006 movie Fearless, which is one of Zuckerberg's favorites. Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury features a story of Huo's fictional disciple Chen Zhen, who brought to justice his master's murderers.
P.S. I happen to have a former student who is a staff member of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. She was on the spot at the forum. She chatted with me on WeChat saying that both Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are members of the Advisory Committee of Tsinghua. The audience "was thrilled" hearing him speaking Mandarin Chinese, for they had thought that he just knew some expressions of greetings. And the overseas students "felt pretty frustrated." She also said Zuckerberg might visit her school again next month to "submit his assignments" as a member of the committee.