‘Bromance’ blooms in south China
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AN American journalist has met the Chinese man who has been using his lost iPhone.
Matt Stopera and Li Hongjun met for the first time on Tuesday night at an airport in southern China, in the latest chapter of what some Chinese are calling an international “bromance.”
In February, Stopera, a New York-based writer for website Buzzfeed, became famous in China for an article describing how photos from China began to appear on his phone’s photo stream after his iPhone was stolen in New York.
Chinese Internet users tracked the photos, and the stolen iPhone, to Li Hongjun, a 30-year-old restaurateur in Meizhou, a city in south China’s Guangdong Province. Li and Stopera, who is 25, connected online and planned this week’s meeting in Meizhou.
Li, known online as Brother Orange after his selfies with tangerine trees showed up in Stopera’s photo stream, said his nephew gave him the secondhand phone as a gift last October, but claimed he had no idea it was stolen.
The activities of Stopera and Li have been exhaustively documented online.
Stopera, whose Weibo account has nearly 180,000 fans, posted pictures of himself eating Chinese porridge and pickled radish, planting a tree, and taking a selfie with Li and tangerine trees.
Another Weibo user said: “A genuine and slightly serious middle aged man versus an amiable, smiley American fellow — such an interesting pair,” choosing to describe the 30 year old as middle aged.
Li said his life has not changed much since meeting Stopera.
“It’s no big deal if customers want to take pictures with me. People call me ‘Brother Orange’ ... It feels really good.”
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