The NYRB China Archive
01.12.21
China’s First Big #MeToo Case Tests the Party
from New York Review of Books
In November, a court at last notified Zhou Xiaoxuan, known more commonly by her nickname, Xianzi, that it would try her case, a civil lawsuit filed in 2018 against television host Zhu Jun, who she alleges sexually harassed her. But when the trial...
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08.02.18Chinese Spiritual Leader Is Accused of Harassing Female Followers
New York Times
In a 95-page document that circulated widely on social media this week, two male monks accused the Venerable Xuecheng, the abbot of Longquan Monastery in Beijing and a powerful religious official, of sending explicit messages and making unwanted...
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07.12.18Chinese Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment Is Barred From Teaching
A major university in southern China has barred a professor from teaching after female students went public with sexual harassment allegations against him, unhappy that the university had not taken swifter, firmer action.
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01.24.18‘Me Too,’ Chinese Women Say. Not so Fast, Say the Censors.
New York Times
They call themselves “silence breakers,” circulate petitions demanding investigations into sexual harassment and share internet memes like clenched fists with painted nails.
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01.12.18China Professor Accused in #MeToo Campaign Is Sacked
BBC
A Chinese university has fired a professor accused of sexual misconduct, after a former student named him in a #MeToo campaign.
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01.09.18China’s Women Break Silence on Harassment as #MeToo Becomes #WoYeShi
Guardian
Beijing’s strict social control mean few have risked speaking out about misogyny but campaigners are beginning to make their voices heard.
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09.13.17China 'Feminist Five' Activist Handed 10-Year Travel Ban
Financial Times
One of China’s “Feminist Five” group of women who were arrested for campaigning against sexual harassment has been barred from leaving the country for a decade, in the latest example of Beijing’s ever-tightening grip on civil society.