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Tue 04 Apr 2007China's media-fuelled obsession with celebrity plumbs new depthsCHINA:Hong Kong's unscrupulous tabloids have turned their sights on an actor being pursued by an unbalanced 'full-time fan', writes Clifford Coonanin BeijingCelebrity stalking is a relatively new phenomenon in China, but Yang Lijuan's obsession with the Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau came to dominate her entire family, with the madness escalating until it culminated in her father's suicide.