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

<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2021/tiktok-china-influencer-liziqi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here to read the article by Yi-Ling Liu.</a></p><p>Narrated by Sylvia Franke.</p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.</p>