This is a terrible interview. These are your questions? Please, just quit. Stop. Change jobs.

Xiao Bao is a very familiar face for all the Sanlitun Lovers in Beijing.
I love his craft, and find this interview quite condescending!! I agree with whyny - the interview from Beijing Globaltimes was much more interesting.

you want to talk about filling a page -- the Global Times's piece is fricking 1,000+ words long.

I'm not sure the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden got that length.

I dare anyone to claim they didn't stop reading after the first paragraph (if they bothered to read it at all)

Absolutely dire article - Is the interviewer 4 years old? if so, then that was very good! But I don't think that's the case. Why didn't you go all the way and ask him to jump up and down like a frog and try to catch a fly with his tongue?

I read the Global times article, and I did get passed the first article because it was well written, engaging and actually had some interesting content in it. Isn't that what an article is meant to be like?

Oops, obviously not, my mistake - sorry admin.

I don't like it when people insult or flame on sites about articles when it is unjust. But come on, this is not worthy of being published.

It's interesting that this terrible article has motivated so many users of this site to post something for the very first time, some of whom have been users for almost two years without a peep ... we seem to have struck a nerve

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He reminds me of Jimny Cricket, adorable little fellows both!

I completely agree with the comments about such a terrible interview.
This man has such an interesting history and story - he is known and respected in the community and honestly, I don't know anyone who calls him the "Frog Man".
The interviewer should be ashamed of herself for showing such disrespect.
All we learnt here was her inexperience, lack of local knowledge and ignorance.
Admin: get a real journalist to interview him. Length is irrelevant. Quality should be the focus - and yes, why so defensive?

This would be hard for Mr Frog to conclude from the interview itself as it was done by a Chinese person, not a foreigner.

I didn't find the article to be disrespectful and apologies, I don't mean to sound defensive. It's probably because I've read so many profiles of this guy over the past decade that a fresh, somewhat irreverent take on his story appeals to me.

And at the risk of sounding disrespectful to this streetside saint, I've had this guy poke his wares in my face a few too many times. It was charming the first 10 times but after a while it becomes hard to not look at him as just another beggar

i'm sure yashow sock touts, "lady bar" street hustlers, Jenny Lou ceramics cart vendors, orphan flower sellers and the "look at my stump" handicapped have much more struggles. I feel bad for them all in a way, but it doesn't mean I like to be hassled repeatedly to buy something from them or give them my change.

This guy's an entrepreneur at heart and deserves respect for that. He's got himself a good gig that earns him more than the average taxi driver or restaurant fuwuyuan.

But please, he's been shoving that shit in my face every time I visit Sanlitun for a decade. Oh, how it grows old.

The man was a headmaster and educator who made it through the cultural revolution.
He came to Beijing after he had retired with his wife who was dying and needed urgent medical treatment. He started selling little handmade items to meet her medical bills.
She died and he keeps making the little items as it keeps him going and he enjoys being with people.
He does it everyday, rain, hail, snow and heat.

Admin: You really are out of line. You owe him and your readers a massive apology.

What the heck, Admin? You've gone from being defensive to offensive in three short posts. Stay off the Haterade, dude: you're doing your employers a serious disfavor