Mao Amin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Mao.
Mao Amin
毛阿敏
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Shanghai
NationalityChinese (Hong Kong)
OccupationSinger

Mao Amin (Chinese: 毛阿敏; pinyin: Máo Āmǐn; born 1962)[1] is a Chinese singer known by the "honorific title" of Dajieda ("Big Sister"), "was one of China's most famous and senior female pop stars" by "the mid-1990s."[2] In 2001, she was one of 36 Chinese athletes and entertainers who were depicted on a series of postage stamps issued "in support of Beijing's bid for hosting the 2008 Olympic Games."[3]

  1. ^ Zu-yan Chen, Robert Daly, and Hong Zhang, Chinese Through Song (2001), 1994.
  2. ^ Nimrod Baranovitch, China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978–1997 (2003), 146
  3. ^ "Chinese Stars to Be on Stamps to Support Olympic Bid," People's Daily (4 June 2001).