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Fans are usually celebrity admirers. They usually pay attention to celebrity trends, especially ones related to fashion. Fans also can be people who follow a particular blogger to read his or her social media posts.

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1Two Manchester City fans, Geoff Watts and Howard Davies, coincidentally wrote similar letters to the club.

2He responded in champion's style by treating the fans to an exhibition of power and speed.

3His fans would already be familiar with Caroline.

TextChinese rural opera has fewer fansView Translation

When he dons his flowing robes and vivid makeup, Wu Yunhong is transformed from a laborer who toils on mountains under a beating sun into an evil general commanding an army of warriors. Wu was raised in the Jinyuan Opera Company, co-founded by his grandfather in 1984. He started performing when he was only 8 years old and is the third generation to carry on the tradition - but may be the last. With crowds aging and not too many shows to perform, the Sichuan-style opera staged around the municipality of Chongqing in Southwest China, is threatened with extinction - even as other traditional art forms flourish in the country. Some Chinese opera styles such as Peking and Canton have been elevated to "national treasure" status by the government, winning millions in funding, but some others are fading away. "Sometimes the only young people at the performances are my wife and children when they travel with us," said Wu, 26. Between shows, he and his fellow actors must tend to their fields, growing corn and rice in a mountainous area where temperatures can easily reach 42 C in the summer. "All of our fees come from the farmers who pool their money together for a show," said troupe member Lyu Guiying. "We make a little extra money performing, but we can never get rich performing." Peking Opera was popularized in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The opera had royal support and spread because it was sung in a language widely understood in China, while some regional varieties such as Cantonese, Shanghainese and Sichuanese opera stuck to their own dialects and songs. The government remained keen on Peking Opera after New China was founded in 1949, and the central government urged provinces to form their own Peking Opera troupes. During the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), only eight "model plays" were allowed. It took until the 1980s for private theater companies to start forming again. They flourished for a short time, but have since had to compete with new forms of entertainment that came up with China's economic boom. But without official support, niche styles are disappearing. "In the 1960s there were more than 300 varieties of Chinese opera, today there are about 200," Ruru Li, a professor of Chinese theater studies at the University of Leeds, said. "In 10 years time, maybe there will only be 100 varieties left." Those who still perform them have had to contend with shrinking audiences and a lack of new fans, as many young people shun farming and leave China's countryside to look for better-paying jobs in the cities. "I don't want my son to grow up learning opera like I did, he needs to go to school. Hopefully he can go to university," said Wu.

Chapecoense fans mourn players lost in crashView Translation

CHAPECO - Thousands of grieving fans in green and white filled the Chapecoense stadium in remote southern Brazil on Tuesday, singing their team's praises and chanting one by one the names of players who lost their lives in a plane crash a day earlier. "We are champions!" they cried as club staff and relatives of the deceased joined hands in a circle at midfield, part of an impromptu ceremony that swung between mourning for the lives lost and pride in the unlikely feats of their fallen heroes. Less than a week ago, the streets of this small farming city rang with cheers and firecrackers as the team punched its ticket to the final of the Sudamericana Cup, capping a fairy tale rise from Brazil's fourth division in 2009. The excitement turned to tragedy late on Monday when the team's charter flight crashed near Medellin en route to the final against Colombia's Atletico Nacional, the biggest game in Chapecoense's history. "We've passed from a dream into a nightmare," said metalworker Fernando de Oliveira, who left work to bring his crying wife and two children to the stadium in a show of support. Businesses closed, schools canceled classes and the mayor called off municipal Christmas celebrations as he declared 30 days of mourning. A sea of fans filled the streets outside a cathedral downtown for an evening mass before streaming down the road to the stadium. The tragedy echoed throughout global soccer, but the scale of the loss was staggering in a city where it takes a 10th of the population to fill the small concrete stadium's 20,000 seats. "This is a little city from the interior, but it felt like we grew along with our team," said Laura Zanotelli, 17, one of more than a hundred fans who gathered in the Chapacoense stands late into the afternoon, consoling each other and praying aloud. "So many of our players are from here. I would run into them and their families in the street, like neighbors," she said. Most of the team's players were among the 71 people killed in the crash, Colombian authorities said, as well as local journalists and team officials. "Our idea is to hold a collective wake here in our beloved stadium because everyone wants to give their support, to give an embrace," said Ivan Tozzo, who became the team's acting president when his predecessor died in the crash. Team Chairman Gelson Dalla Costa said the club's doctors were traveling to Medellín on Tuesday to collect the bodies. Three Chapecoense players were among the six people who survived the crash. Dalla Costa said defender Helio Neto was undergoing cranial surgery and reserve goalkeeper Jackson Follmann had a leg amputated. Defender Alan Ruschel was reported in intensive care but in stable condition. "As you know, in an accident of this scale you can get any kind of news in the first 48 hours," he added, regarding the health of the survivors. An improvised shrine outside the player's entrance to the stadium filled up with jerseys, flowers and candles. A poster celebrated, in a child's handwriting, Chapacoense's meteoric rise into top-flight Brazilian soccer: "They never tired of climbing and now they're in heaven."

Calendar books gain fans in an online worldView Translation

Calendars turned into luxuriously illustrated books, often with a twist of interactivity, are highlights of China's book scene at the end of the year. The most popular is the Palace Museum Calendar, which has sold 1.3 million copies since it was first issued in 2010. The first printing of the 2017 version－300,000 copies－is sold out, and four more printings have been ordered. For 2017, the Palace Museum Press is offering a bilingual version with English and Chinese. The Beijing museum also is known as the Forbidden City. "We saw a need abroad for understanding Chinese cultural traditions," said Wang Guanliang, director of the office that plans the calendar datebooks. "We didn't expect this but the market treats our publications as collectibles," Wang said. The 2010 version is now worth 80 times its original price, according to online sites for book sales. Wang said that the calendar is inspired by Chinese zodiac animals, and is illustrated with photos of relics from the Palace Museum's collection of some 1.82 million antiques－"almost an endless source for us". Publishing expert Zhang Lei said that the success of the Palace Museum Calendar has inspired more publishing entities to follow suit. "We have embraced the new types of calendars since the Palace Museum won the hearts of consumers by introducing arts to people's daily lives," Zhang said. The number of such calendar titles has risen to 51 this year, compared with last year's 16. "Most of the calendars are like art books. For young readers, they are portable, affordable, and chic to have," he added. Zhao Mingye, director of the Plants and Animals Calendar team of Guokr.com, told China Daily, "Most of our customers buy more than one copy." Their calendar for 2017 is full of cute animals, with a QR code for each day offering updated online content. "Our 2016 version sold 100,000 copies, and 40,000 copies of the 2017 version were sold the night it was launched," Zhao said. Besides the Plants and Animals Calendar, there is the One Way Street Calendar that resembles an old style Chinese almanac. If scanned using an augmented reality app, it displays videos of celebrities reading poems. China Book Company, which created a Dream of the Red Chamber calendar for 2014, has since developed five more calendars with themes which include Chinese classical literature. As the popularity of printed books declines, calendars are turning a new page for printed content with innovative designs and themes, reviving interest in categories like traditional culture, popular science and literature.

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