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Talking about sex on TV in Taiwan and the mainlandPosted by Joel Martinsen, March 21, 2006 10:49 PM
![]() Kang Kang's show in Taiwan. Topic: underwear models Kang Kang (aka Kang Jinrong) is an entertainer from Taiwan who was on the mainland earlier this month promoting his new album, My Family (我的家庭). This album is a reworked (and sanitized) version of one that came out on Taiwan last fall under the slightly more agressive title What's it to you who I marry? (管你妈妈嫁给谁). Kang Kang is known for his colorful language and crude humor, and did his promotional tour on the mainland under the label "talk show host" rather than "singer," a choice that enabled him to comment on the cross-straits disparity: remuneration (hosts from Taiwan make serious coin on the mainland), attitude (mainland hosts should find their own expression amid their imitation of Taiwan mannerisms), and Super Girls (he wants to create a program that will pay contestants for how long they last on stage before the judges kick them off). The fact that his music has not been judged too highly may have had something to do with it as well. Speaking to Southern Metropolis Weekly about talk show topics, Kang Kang compared the situation on the mainland to that in Taiwan:
![]() Sun Guoqing and his little devils Of course, Kang Kang's is not the only perspective. We turn now to Sun Guoqing, a cellist, singer, and talk-show host who has been in the media recently because of his new program on Travel TV, Ha La Mr. Sun. He also hosts a knockoff of Kids Say the Darndest Things on Star TV; below is a translation of one blogger's summary of a particularly unexpected episode:
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