China’s binge-eating ‘rabbits’

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Manya Koetse scours trends on Chinese internet sites and social media for her website ‘What’s on Weibo'. She tells Emily Thomas about the recent craze for live binge-eating among young Chinese women and how some of this is disturbingly followed by ‘purging’. Why do they call themselves ‘rabbits’? And why does no one use the term ‘eating disorder’ when talking about these trends?