Legend has it that it was only when strangers greeted him in the street the next day that he realised it had gone out live – in fact 550 million people had been watching nationwide, and Rowswell had just become the first foreign host of a major event in Chinese television history.

The story of ‘Dansand’, a former foreign student from Canada and his new position as one of the most well-known foreign faces across China due to his luck position as the host of a talent contest while at Beijing University in the late 1980′s.

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