, Columnist
Are There New Limits for Artists in China?
Papi Jiang is the latest victim of a stultifying policy.
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Last fall, Papi Jiang, a 29-year-old graduate student in Beijing, began posting short, satirical and occasionally profane monologues about daily life in urban China to social media. Within a couple of months, she'd racked up tens of millions of views, earned nearly $2 million in private funding and raised hopes that online celebrities might offer a new revenue stream for China's Internet companies.
Then, last week, it all ended: Papi Jiang's videos abruptly disappeared.