{"id":39956,"date":"2021-12-21T00:08:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/20\/wang-leehom-lee-jinglei-china-taiwan"},"modified":"2021-12-21T00:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:08:06","slug":"china-riveted-by-public-row-between-pop-star-and-former-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39956","title":{"rendered":"China riveted by public row between pop star and former wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-born singer-songwriter Wang Leehom accused of infidelity and emotional abuse by Lee Jinglei<\/p>\n<p>The highly successful Mandarin-speaking singer-songwriter Wang Leehom has issued<a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/1793285524\/L6U097QmW?pagetype=profilefeed\"> a public apology<\/a> to his ex-wife after a high-profile family row that has gripped the Chinese-speaking world.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/5977512966\/L6w2sfDXb?pagetype=profilefeed\">a lengthy social media post<\/a> on Friday, Lee Jinglei accused Wang of emotional abuse, lack of care for his family, infidelity and solicitation of sex workers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/20\/wang-leehom-lee-jinglei-china-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-born singer-songwriter Wang Leehom accused of infidelity and emotional abuse by Lee JingleiThe highly successful Mandarin-speaking singer-songwriter Wang Leehom has issued a public apology to his ex-wife after a high-profile family row that has grip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2747,"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":[41,50,425,1032,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-music","category-pop-and-rock","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39956","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\/2747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39963,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39956\/revisions\/39963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}