Media Interviews
'Misleading mooncake ads, vulgar content: China’s influencer network firms face regulatory clean-up', The Straits Times, 18 January 2025, by Lim Min Zhang
'Cancelled in China or South Korea: Try making a comeback in Singapore and South-east Asia', The Straits Times, 16 October 2024, by Jan Lee
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'Medals and mobs: China's 'toxic' sports fans face crackdown', Agence France Press (AFP), 04 September 2024, by Sam Davies
'Taiwanese fans call out local celebs for their pro-China statements, accuse them of 'selling out', The Straits Times, 03 June 2024, by Waiyee Yip
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'Dying to be famous: the Chinese live-streamers killing themselves for clicks, and the lure of online careers', South China Morning Post, 01 June 2024, by Xinrou Shu
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'China’s online influencers under scrutiny after fake story sparks public outrage', The Straits Times, 05 May 2024, by Lim Min Zhang
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‘China launches new data agency as ambitions in AI and digital economy soar', South China Morning Post, 20 November 2023, by Jane Cai and William Zheng
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‘Crazy love: Behind China’s crackdown on K-pop and other fan clubs’, BBC News, 10 September 2021, by Waiyee Yip
Tainted celebrities’: What’s behind China’s crackdown on the entertainment industry?, The Straits Times, 06 September, 2021, by Ho Ai Li
‘Why it is no longer cool to be a crazy rich Asian in China?’, BBC News, 10 June, 2021, by Waiyee Yip
‘A queda de uma estrela e a 'política da celebridade' na China’, O Globo, January 25, 2021, by Marcelo Ninio
‘China’s social credit system looks distinctly dystopian’, Disruptr, September 30, 2019, By Melina Bunting
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‘From pig farmer to internet sensation: Meet the viral star hogging the limelight on a Chinese streaming app’, CNN, April 22, 2019, By Julie Zaugg
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‘The latest hot celebrity endorsement: Chinese imperial history’, Caixin Global, January 26, 2019, By Noelle Mateer
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‘The Chinese farmer who live-streamed her life and made a fortune’, New Yorker, October 30, 2018, By Yi-Ling Liu
‘Why the Chinese media keeps criticising Australia’, SBS News, October 19, 2018, By Myles Morgan
‘Australian Financial Review questioned over deal to share content with China’s Caixin Global’, ABC News, October 12, 2018, By Ian Burrows
‘Chinese propaganda faces stiff competition from celebrities’, The Washington Post, October 22, 2017, By Yi-Ling Liu