{"id":45541,"date":"2022-06-19T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/18\/china-livestream-shopping-hosts-censored-sales-anchors-authorities"},"modified":"2022-06-19T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:30:21","slug":"oh-my-god-buy-it-chinas-livestream-shopping-stars-risk-being-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45541","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oh my God, buy it!\u2019 China\u2019s livestream shopping stars risk being censored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online sales stars enjoy huge influence but can  fall foul of the authorities and vanish from the retail multiverse<\/p>\n<p>Hua Shao stands knee-deep in water at the edge of the sea, behind a table piled high with large crabs. The famous Chinese TV host is sweaty, sunburnt and laughing with a co-host as a red-and-blue fishing boat bobs behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sea-ears taste so good, it must have been collected from a sea area where the water is very clear,\u201d he tells more than 100,000 people who are watching online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/18\/china-livestream-shopping-hosts-censored-sales-anchors-authorities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online sales stars enjoy huge influence but can  fall foul of the authorities and vanish from the retail multiverseHua Shao stands knee-deep in water at the edge of the sea, behind a table piled high with large crabs. The famous Chinese TV host is swea&#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":[41,458,50,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-technology","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\/45541","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=45541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541\/revisions\/45542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}