Trending in China: Coco Lee’s Death Sparks Calls for Support for People With Depression

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The death of Chinese American singer Coco Lee has triggered an outpouring of grief on Chinese social media, while drawing attention to depression that’s linked to a string of celebrity deaths.

Since Lee’s sisters announced Wednesday that Lee died by suicide, several hashtags related to the singing sensation have topped the trending list on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo. One of them, #CoCo Lee died #李玟去世, had been viewed more than 3.8 billion times and garnered over 530,000 comments as of Thursday evening.