{"id":48726,"date":"2022-09-22T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T04:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/22\/chinas-lipstick-king-reappears-months-after-tiananmen-tank-cake-row"},"modified":"2022-09-22T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T04:08:37","slug":"chinas-lipstick-king-reappears-months-after-tiananmen-tank-cake-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48726","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Lipstick King reappears, months after Tiananmen \u2018tank cake\u2019 row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity livestreamer Li Jiaqi returns to screen after nearly four months of silence following a broadcast showcasing a tank-shaped dessert<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s leading shopping livestreamer, Li Jiaqi, has returned to online commerce platforms almost four months after his feed was suddenly cut, which viewers suspected was linked to the errant appearance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/li-jiaqi-chinese-influencer-career-tiananmen-square-tank-cake-stream\">a tank-shaped cake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/18\/china-livestream-shopping-hosts-censored-sales-anchors-authorities\">also known as the Lipstick King<\/a> for his ability to move huge amounts of product on his sales channels, briefly appeared on Alibaba Group\u2019s Taobao marketplace on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/22\/chinas-lipstick-king-reappears-months-after-tiananmen-tank-cake-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity livestreamer Li Jiaqi returns to screen after nearly four months of silence following a broadcast showcasing a tank-shaped dessertChina\u2019s leading shopping livestreamer, Li Jiaqi, has returned to online commerce platforms almost four months af&#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":[41,458,50,1532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-online-tv"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726","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=48726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48727,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48726\/revisions\/48727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}