[Rest of World] She drew millions of TikTok followers by selling a fantasy of rural China. Then politics intervened

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English - March 07, 2023 20:46 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
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Fans from the U.S. to Bangladesh find escape in Li Ziqi's idyllic videos. But behind the camera, she's just another player in China’s platform economy.

Click here to read the article by Yi-Ling Liu.

Narrated by Sylvia Franke.

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