{"id":45308,"date":"2022-06-09T21:33:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/li-jiaqi-chinese-influencer-career-tiananmen-square-tank-cake-stream"},"modified":"2022-06-09T21:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:33:01","slug":"li-jiaqi-chinese-influencers-career-hangs-in-balance-after-tank-cake-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45308","title":{"rendered":"Li Jiaqi: Chinese influencer\u2019s career hangs in balance after \u2018tank cake\u2019 stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media star\u2019s broadcast cut short after appearance of dessert thought to reference 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown<\/p>\n<p>Li Jiaqi was trained as a dancer but discovered a knack for selling lipsticks in his early 20s. Even before he became one of China\u2019s most popular online salesmen, his maverick style had won repeated praise from his customers and employers alike.<\/p>\n<p>Until last week, when the influencer also known as Austin Li\u2019s online sales broadcast was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/chinese-star-taken-offline-after-showing-tank-cake-on-tiananmen-anniversary\">abruptly terminated following a brief appearance of a \u201ctank cake\u201d<\/a> (seen by many as a symbol of the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown), Li\u2019s story was one of the many rags-to-riches tales touted in the media to inspire those young Chinese who wish to break into business.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/li-jiaqi-chinese-influencer-career-tiananmen-square-tank-cake-stream\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media star\u2019s broadcast cut short after appearance of dessert thought to reference 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdownLi Jiaqi was trained as a dancer but discovered a knack for selling lipsticks in his early 20s. Even before he became one of China\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,236,238,80,235,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-digital-media","category-media","category-protest","category-social-media","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","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\/45308","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45309,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45308\/revisions\/45309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}