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Alice Huang

Meet the ‘son of a farmer’ who named himself after Simba, the Lion King, whose wedding took place at the Bird’s Nest, and who is known for getting into fights with other live streamers

He has close to 40 million fans on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, donated masks to Wuhan and won the hearts of Chinese women on social media everywhere

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As 1.5 billion people this week celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Rat, we delve into the rich Chinese New Year traditions – from a people-eating monster called Nian to today’s Spring Festival

From the thawed K-pop romances of Song-Song couple and Blackpink’s Jennie and Exo’s Kai, to Fan Bingbing and Li Chen’s aborted engagement – these are the regional celebrity break-ups that had us welling up in 2019