In celebration of the one year anniversary of his first book, The Eye of the Storm (which we are currently in the process of translating), Liu Hao Ran held a book signing event at the Page One bookstore in Beijing yesterday.

Apart from being in great spirits and joking around with fans, there was also a brief Q&A session before the signing started. Translation can be found below (keep in mind that he was answering questions in a half joking manner - he was in a really good mood), with more pics from the event! Shoutout to the Cfan who did the transcript. 

Welcome to Chapter 2 of The Eye of the Storm, which is Liu Hao Ran's book that was published in November 2017 in commemoration of his 20th birthday! Chapter 2 focuses on the turning point of Liu Hao Ran's life - when he left his hometown of Pingdingshan, Henan Province to Beijing at the age of 12 to attend the Beijing Dance Academy.

To give you some background to understand why Liu Hao Ran's family decided to let him go to boarding school at such a young age, here's some information on the school itself.

Because how could we not dedicate an entire post to such an accomplishment? The 34th Hundred Flower Awards' list of nominees are out, and Liu Hao Ran becomes the youngest Best Actor nominee in the history of the awards show! This will serve as a Q&A for the awards itself - and relating it all back to Haoran, of course.

But if you don't care about the rest of it, here's the summary: Liu Hao Ran has officially gotten his first Best Actor nomination for a major film award!!

We did a full coverage on pics/performances from the actual awards show over on our Twitter, so make sure you follow us there! 

This is Part 2 of Liu Hao Ran's November 2018 interview with GQ - which essentially is a written transcript of him talking freely about his journey thus far, and how luck (and hard work) has played a huge role. Some of what he touches on was included in the full interview, but there isn't a huge amount of overlap.

Make sure you don't miss Part 1, which is the full interview!  

Well, it's actually happened. With the release of the November 2018 issue of GQ (we heard about this rumor months ago but weren't sure if it'd actually be true because it's so hard to get on GQ), Liu Hao Ran is now just the 14th Chinese male celeb (and the youngest by far) to have had covers on all five of the major men's magazines (GQ, Esquire, Elle Men, L'Officiel Hommes, and Harper's Bazaar Men). 

With the exception of Esquire, which was a group extended cover in December 2016 (let that sink in for a second - he was basically a newbie then!), the other four covers are all solo covers and have come within the span of a year. Not only that, Elle Men, L'Officiel Hommes, and Bazaar Men were shot before Detective Chinatown 2 even came out.

It also should be mentioned here that Daley-V, who is one of the most well-known fashion bloggers on Weibo and is connected to the fashion industry, said in a comment (when the GQ cover was released) that Haoran actually had the chance to complete solo covers for all five this year, but pushed it, presumably due to filming for Novoland: Eagle Flag. Basically saying Esquire solo cover was lined up already. I wish Haoran cared as much about magazine covers as fans and Weibo netizens do, ha, but also props to him for not caring that much about bragging rights. (But guys - if this actually happened and he landed solo covers on all five of the Men's 2+3 within a year that would be even more crazy than this already is.)

I saw a great quote in response to this (him pushing Esquire) from a fan of another actor, who said, "While I'm jealous of his accomplishments, I'm even more jealous of his mind. He really is clear headed." 

Based on what's been said thus far, the photoshoot for GQ took place in Paris back in June 2018 (presumably on the same day as the Men's Uno shoot), though the interview wouldn't take place until months later. That picture of Haoran that went viral in late September, where he was photographed leaving an interview on his bike? That was for GQ.

So the structure of this interview is a bit interesting - there were two articles released, which we didn't realize until after we already translated one, but essentially GQ released a version that was just a transcript of Liu Hao Ran talking, and then an article-based one that includes some of the content from the transcript. We've split this into 2 parts (Part 2 can be found here).