In 2012, news of a Qingdao house fire went viral. The report, which was originally posted on news and lifestyle website Qingdao Shenghuo, was reposted over a thousand times.
The homeowner, a waste picker with long hair and amateurish heavy makeup, went on television and became the center of controversy. She was Liu Peilin, a 63-year-old transgender woman who had been raised by a foster family.
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Video produced by GSS senior editor Veronica Vargo during the Global Student Square production day on Feb. 21, 2015. Includes interviews with editors-in-chief Simon Greenhill and Casey Miller, project manager Jordan Tichenor, and senior editor Jada Johnson.
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