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Online video hosts, especially those addressing cultural differences between China and other countries, are becoming instant celebrities. Chen Nan reports.

'Do you want to marry a Chinese woman? Then, you have to be prepared," Thomas Derksen says, speaking a mix of fluent Mandarin and Shanghai dialect. The German wears wigs, applies makeup and plays the roles of his Shanghainese wife and in-laws in the three-minute video in which he humorously talks about his marriage and being a son-in-law to a Chinese family.

Derksen shot the video in March 2016, after he filmed his first short clip in which he introduces vegetables from his home country.