Gao Xiaosong (born 14 November 1969) is a Chinese musician, talk show host, and film director. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a campus folk songwriter and later became a prominent entertainment executive and media personality. From 2015 to 2021, Gao served as Chairman of the Alibaba Entertainment Strategic Committee and AliMusic. In September 2021, he was blacklisted in China, with his talk shows removed from platforms, reportedly due to his "historical nihilism" and pro-Western views.

Career

Music

Talk show host

Xiaosong Pedia: June 2014 - December 2016 Morning Call: March 2012 - June 2014 Today in History: January 2013 - December 2013

Film director

Writer

Charity

In 2015, Gao founded the nonprofit Zashuguan Library and has been its curator since then. The library has a collection of over 800,000 books and documents, the majority of which were published during the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China period.

Personal life

Gao Xiaosong's father Gao Liren (born 1942) was a photographer and a professor at Tsinghua University. His mother Zhang Kequn, born 1942 in Berlin to physicists Zhang Wei and Lu Shijia, was an architect and a faculty member at Tsinghua University. She was also a grandniece of Shi Jinmo. Gao married Shen Huan in 1999. They divorced in 2002. In 2007, he married Xu Canjin. The couple had a daughter. They divorced in 2013. On May 9, 2011, Gao was arrested after being involved in a road traffic accident in Beijing. He was convicted of reckless driving and driving while drunk, and was sentenced to six months in prison. Gao afterwards spoke out against drunken driving, saying “When wine is in, wit is out. Please draw a lesson from my case.”