Letter to Editor + Live-Streaming in China

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(1) Letters to Editor. Economist, Feb 11, 2017
www.economist.com/news/letters/2 ... ta-pop-police-latin
("Modern data[:] * * * may I suggest you also have another look at your dogged insistence on treating 'data' as a plural? It hasn't been a proper plural for at least the past two decades. Throughout the English-speaking world it has become a mass noun, like 'water' or 'sand.' The singular 'datum' has clearly followed 'agendum” into complete disuse")

(2) Life is but a stream l China's New Craze for Live-Streaming; A new way of bringing colour to dreary lives. Economist, Feb 11, 2017 (a piece in Special Report: entertainment).
http://www.economist.com/news/sp ... raze-live-streaming

Note:
(a) "LAST YEAR ZHAO XINLONG, aged 25, and his wife and baby boy moved from his parents' farm [in north-east China] into a mid-rise apartment in town[:] * * * Luan County [河北省唐山市] 滦县 is a rustbelt community on the polluted outskirts of the steel city of Tangshan [wjhere Zhao works as a taxi driver by day]  * * * But when he gets online in the evening, he becomes a different person: Zhao Long'er, an entertainer. Using Kuaishou, a Chinese video-sharing and live-streaming app, he broadcasts to a live audience of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of fellow Chinese every night. Taken together, they [live broadcasters] add up to more than 100,000. Many of them are diaosi 屌丝, people who mockingly identify themselves as losers in dead-end jobs. * * * Live-streaming his life earns Mr Zhao about $850 a month, twice as much as his day job."

关于快手. undated
www.kuaishou.com/about.html
("快手是记录和分享大家生活的平台")
(b) "Most people over 25 would struggle to name a YouTube star other than possibly PewDiePie, a Swedish gamer with a global following of more than 50m."

PewDiePie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie
(Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg; 1989- )

Quote: "PewDiePie originally registered a YouTube account under the name 'Pewdie;' he explains that 'pew' represents the sound of lasers and 'die' means death. After forgetting the password to this account, he then registered the 'PewDiePie' YouTube channel on 29 April 2010.
(c) "China's live-streaming industry more than doubled in size last year, with revenues of around $3bn, according to Credit Suisse, a bank. * * * That compares with box-office receipts for the Chinese film business, the world's second-largest, of $7bn last year. Of the 710m people with internet connections in China, nearly half have used live-streaming apps. * * * Six Rooms 六间房 [2006- ; based in Beijing], or 6.cn, may have been the first to offer live-streaming 直播 as a service for a mass audience. * * * In desperation [during financial crisis] its CEO and co-founder, Liu Yan 刘岩, turned to live-streaming. * * * In China, as well as in South Korea and Japan, where live-streaming has also caught on"