{"id":68968,"date":"2025-01-17T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/17\/teacher-li-memecoin-cryptocurrency-chinese-activist"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T00:10:13","slug":"chinese-activist-teacher-lis-memecoin-launch-divides-dissident-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68968","title":{"rendered":"Chinese activist Teacher Li\u2019s memecoin launch divides dissident community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Teacher Li\u2019 is among the most prolific sources of unfiltered information from behind China\u2019s Great Firewall. But an attempt to monetise it has proven controversial<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, two parallel visions of Chinese activism appeared on X. One was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whyyoutouzhele\/status\/1878759815557902435\">a video<\/a> showing a small protest outside a school in western Sichuan province. The other, from a related account, was a post promoting a memecoin and something it called the \u201c$Li vision\u201d, adding that \u201csome of the greatest coins had a rocky start\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The man behind both accounts is Li Ying, a Chinese art student turned activist based in Milan. His original X account, \u201cTeacher Li is Not Your Teacher\u201d, is one of the most prominent news feeds in the Chinese diaspora. To his nearly 2m followers, Li shares pictures and videos of happenings in China which would be censored inside the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/17\/teacher-li-memecoin-cryptocurrency-chinese-activist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Teacher Li\u2019 is among the most prolific sources of unfiltered information from behind China\u2019s Great Firewall. But an attempt to monetise it has proven controversialOn Monday, two parallel visions of Chinese activism appeared on X. One was a video showi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[559,50,310,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-china","category-cryptocurrencies","category-human-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68968","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68968\/revisions\/68969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}