The NYRB China Archive
01.12.21

China’s First Big #MeToo Case Tests the Party

Lavender Au
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...

China 'Feminist Five' Activist Handed 10-Year Travel Ban

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.