Lee Kai-fu at his Beijing office last year. Photo: Simon Song

Ex-Google China chief Lee Kai-fu dismisses rumours of his demise

China's social media on Friday was full of erroneous speculation that the former Google China chief and influential microblogger Lee Kai-fu, who has been publicly battling cancer, had died.

Topic | Kai-fu Lee

Amy Li and Adrian Wan

Published: 1:45pm, 18 Jan, 2014

Updated: 7:04am, 21 Jan, 2014

Lee Kai-fu at his Beijing office last year. Photo: Simon Song

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Amy Li

Amy Li began her journalism career as a crime news reporter in Queens, New York, in 2004. She joined Reuters in Beijing in 2008 as a multimedia editor. Amy taught journalism at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu before joining SCMP in Hong Kong in 2012. She is now an online news editor for SCMP.com. Amy can be reached at [email protected], or follow her on Twitter @AmyLiSCMP