The official People’s Daily Newspaper confirmed that Li had been detained along with a 29-year-old woman. The police also added that the initial tipoff came from members of the public in the Chinese capital’s Chaoyang district. A second post had a photo of a piano keyboard and the caption “one must distinguish, and draw a clear line, between black and white”. The charges were revealed by Beijing police in posts on a Chinese social media network that read more like a trailer for a TV show than an official law enforcement notice.Ī first message said a 39-year-old man had been detained and a suspect placed in administrative detention, with only part of Li’s name, a standard practice to protect anonymity. Chinese police have detained a prominent concert pianist and reality TV personality, Li Yundi, dubbed the “piano prince”, on allegations of hiring a sex worker.
