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Feb. 5, 2012 -- A one-time teenage terror turns over new leaf to bring China's national emblem to the masses, Zhang Haizhou reports from London.
Xie Jinbiao remembers one of the defining moments of his secondary school days. "I wasn't a good student. I was OK in year one and two, but then I took up smoking, drinking and playing up," Xie says.
Xie Jinbiao, the owner of a panda-themed shop in London, takes Hello Kitty as a role model for his Ho-Panda. Zhang Chunyan / China Daily
"I caused the biggest melee in the history of my school - dozens of boys and girls from four classes ended up fighting each other just outside the dormitories. It was total chaos."
Xie, 26, is originally from Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Sipping a bottle of beer and wearing a luxury Longines watch, Xie recalls how he found many of his schoolmates either having gone to prison or "getting on the way there" when he went back to China last year.
He might have been one of them if his father had not insisted on sending him abroad after just one year in high school. |
