• 5 years ago
Liu Shichao, aka Hebei Pangzai, won over Twitter with videos of himself chugging six beers in under a minute and smashing bricks with his bare hands. Fans started calling him “The King.”

But how did a man in rural China break through the Great Firewall to become a global internet sensation? We went all the way to Hebei to find him and ask how he feels about becoming everyone’s “king.”

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Producer: Jessica Novia 
Videographer: Hanley Chu 
Editors: Nicholas Ko and Hanley Chu  
Mastering: Victor Peña 

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