{"id":38937,"date":"2021-11-15T20:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/concern-growing-chinese-tennis-star-accused-china-official-assault-peng-shuai"},"modified":"2021-11-15T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:02:38","slug":"concerns-grow-for-chinese-tennis-star-who-accused-ex-vice-premier-of-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38937","title":{"rendered":"Concerns grow for Chinese tennis star who accused ex-vice-premier of assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peng Shuai has not been publicly heard from since she made accusation online on 2 November<\/p>\n<p>A growing movement including Chinese feminist groups and international tennis stars is raising concern over the whereabouts of the former Chinese doubles pro Peng Shuai after she accused a senior government figure of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Peng, one of China\u2019s biggest sporting stars, has not been publicly heard from since a Weibo post on 2 November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/tennis-star-peng-shuai-accuses-chinese-communist-party-official-zhang-gaoli-of-sexual-assault\">in which she alleged<\/a> the former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli coerced her into sex and that they had an intermittent affair. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/concern-growing-chinese-tennis-star-accused-china-official-assault-peng-shuai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peng Shuai has not been publicly heard from since she made accusation online on 2 NovemberA growing movement including Chinese feminist groups and international tennis stars is raising concern over the whereabouts of the former Chinese doubles pro Peng&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,203,2409,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-sport","category-tennis","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38955,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38937\/revisions\/38955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}