{"id":60761,"date":"2023-12-27T07:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/27\/chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub"},"modified":"2023-12-27T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T22:19:44","slug":"chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60761","title":{"rendered":"Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yan Chenglong crowned \u2018Xiangqi King\u2019 but overdid celebrations, as governing body also investigates whether he cheated using anal beads<\/p>\n<p>The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumours of cheating and a bad behaviour scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title on Monday after a victory celebration ended with him defecating in a hotel bathtub.<\/p>\n<p>Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, has been hugely popular for hundreds of years across Asia \u2013 and 48-year-old Yan Chenglong beat dozens of contenders last week to win the title of \u201cXiangqi King\u201d at a national tournament hosted by the Chinese Xiangqi Association.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/27\/chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yan Chenglong crowned \u2018Xiangqi King\u2019 but overdid celebrations, as governing body also investigates whether he cheated using anal beadsThe world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumours of cheating and a bad behaviour scandal that saw the national cha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"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":[50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","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\/60761","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\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60761\/revisions\/60762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}