Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Zoe Zhao
For today’s talk, I will focus primarily on the conditions of women workers and Olia will talk more about self-organization and NGOs. Some of the discussion will draw from my own fieldwork in China during the pandemic.
To understand gender relations in the Chinese working class (…)
Swift response by Renmin University to student’s post creates shockwave in a country where accusers are often ignored or sued
Public allegations of sexual harassment are rare in China. Swift responses to punish the accused are rarer still. So a recent case at one of China’s top universities, (…)
SANBA (三八), literally translating to “Three Eight” or March 8th, has long been a discriminatory term for women (funü, 妇女) in Chinese, as this date marks International Women’s Day and thus has become associated with women, and particularly, working class married women. “Sanba” is part of a (…)
Where does the future of our movement lie? This question has surely troubled many Chinese feminists like me in the past year or two. Against all odds, the feminist movement had been making progress in China. From 2018 to 2020, when critical public spaces in the country were closing, the (…)
When it comes to feminism, there is often more debate than consensus. In recent years, the debate has become increasingly polarized: on one side, there is liberal feminism that emphasizes individual freedom and gender equality, and on the other side, there is misogynistic thinking that is (…)
HONG KONG (AP) — In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence.
So a 75-year-old Japanese feminist (…)
Every year in June, the annual memorial of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is held around the world. The annual memorial was also held in Tokyo on June 4 this year. Many young people participated in it. On that day, many young Chinese who had no direct knowledge of the incident also attended the (…)
Struggles for women’s rights, and the state’s responses, have shifted over the history of the People’s Republic of China. In an initial period of socialist state feminism, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated “women’s liberation” and offered child-friendly services to facilitate women’s entry (…)
Contemporary beauty culture in China blends traditional Chinese culture with modern aesthetics and global influences.
Over the course of the last century, Western beauty ideals – thinness, light skin, large breasts, large eyes, a small nose and high cheekbones – have seeped into countries and (…)
“We must stay in solidarity with Chinese women who risk their safety and their lives. Support for a new wave of feminist struggles on the call of the progressive forces in the countries around China is necessary.”
In China, gender equality which is enshrined in the country’s constitution is (…)
The crime says just as much about the system as the perpetrator. Both are guilty.
A video about a chained woman on 27 January in Feng County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, went viral over the internet, and then in three weeks the number of hits on the online subject of “Xuzhou chained woman” reached billions. The government censorship responded by deleting most of these posts, but the spontaneous and collective effort of Chinese (...)
• Campaigners against sexual assault say the case is heartening despite the silencing of discussion inside the country
• ‘Revealing the dark side of top party officials … means a lot,’ activist says
It was a click that was heard around the world.
Early last month, the send button was (…)
This essay is an adaptation of Xianzi’s presentation at the online workshop “(Self)censorship, Social Activism, and Chinese Feminist Scholarship” organized by Zeng Jinyan on 10 July 2020. The essay was translated by Scott Savitt and edited by Malcolm Thompson.
From the start of the Chinese (…)
Analysis: public opinion shifting, but reaction from authorities may have related more to crackdown on fame culture
It felt like a turning point. The arrest of one of China’s biggest pop stars on rape allegations had raised hopes that authorities were finally addressing the country’s #MeToo (…)
Song by Tan Weiwei, one of the nation’s favourite performers, appears to reference high-profile instances of violence against women
In the torrent of comments below the video of Tan Weiwei’s latest single, one summed up the burgeoning anger of Chinese women: “The roar of the times should not (…)
The majority of medical staff in China’s hospitals are women, and during the coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak, it has been women who have been at the forefront of the battle to contain the epidemic.
In Shanghai, more than 90 percent of the nurses and 50 percent of the doctors combating the (…)
Despite suspicion from authorities about grassroots activism, the courts and policymakers are starting to respond
Liu Li has spent the past year fighting what many said would be a losing battle. Inspired by a flood of MeToo accounts that emerged in China, last year she brought a lawsuit (…)
Huang arrested in Guangzhou for allegedly ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’.
A leading Chinese feminist has been arrested in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou for allegedly disturbing public order, sources familiar with the case said on Thursday. Two sources said Sophia Huang (…)
CHINESE WOMEN STILL face perilous conditions in society and the workplace, often falling victim to sexual harassment and discrimination of various kinds.
• Women are discriminated against in job applications. Research conducted by Human Rights Watch found that almost 20% of civil service (…)
More than 20 women have come out with allegations against former bosses, acquaintances, and colleagues in the last week
AChinese anti-discrimination campaigner, an environmentalist, three journalists, an academic, two badminton coaches, and one of China’s most watched television hosts. These (…)
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