Name: Li Jiaqi - Livestreamer - If I Were From Beijing (4/6)
Uploaded: 2019-08-02T00:00:00.000+02:00
Duration: 313 s
Description: Li Jiaqi is China's famous lipstick consultant. In his livestreams, he tests hundreds of colours and brands. The record: 380 in two hours. His fan base of over 45 million followers hang on to every word that comes from his lips - whatever their colour.

Li Jiaqi – Chinas Streaming-Star

Li Jiaqi - Livestreamer

Li Jiaqi, livestreamer

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Li Jiaqi is China's famous lipstick consultant. In his livestreams, he tests hundreds of colours and brands. The record: 380 in two hours. His fan base of over 45 million followers hang on to every word that comes from his lips - whatever their colour.

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If I Were From Beijing

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Li Jiaqi is a lipstick influencer in China. He once tested a whopping 380 lipsticks in two hours for his 45 million followers

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China carefully controls the information that its people have access to, and Google, Facebook and Twitter flag up uncomfortable truths that would be better forgotten. But the country still wants to use the internet: so instead China, has developed its own sanitised ecosystem of plaforms. Nothing is anti-government or pro-democracy, and most users are flooded with messages of consumerism and entertainment. 

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China, Country of Censorship

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Papi Jiang's funny, seemingly apolitical videos have got her into trouble with the government

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Journalist Cui Yongyuan has made it his habit to step right up to the limit of what he's allowed to do

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