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Yiying Han

Chinese professional esports player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ30673660 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yiying Han (simplified Chinese: 韩懿莹; traditional Chinese: 韓懿瑩; born 21 May 1988), also known by her game ID Miss, is a Chinese Warcraft 3 professional player, StarCraft 2 professional player, LOL commentator and game host.

Han is from Neijiang, Sichuan. She began attending Hainan University in 2006, where she received a degree in accounting in 2010. She became active in e-sports in 2007. Han was named the "Most Popular League of Legends Commentator of 2015" (2015英雄联盟最受欢迎解说). During a May 2016 broadcast, she slept for 20 minutes during the intermission for a live League of Legends game. While she was sleeping, more people joined her stream to watch, peaking at almost 300,000 viewers.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yiying Han” is chinese professional esports player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yiying, Chinese and professional, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2006, 2010, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-05-21. For this dossier, Yiying, Chinese and professional is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “chinese professional esports player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30673660. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2006, 2010 and 2007.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Yiying Han primary sources, Yiying Han archive and Yiying research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yiying Han” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.