Resistance, Repression, and Resilience of Chinese Feminism: A Conversation with the "Feminist Five" Activists

Since the early 2010s, the grassroots Young Feminist Activist (YFA) movement in China has initiated a societal awakening especially among young women. However, the transformative feminist movement soon encountered state repression: in 2015, the “Feminist Five” were arrested and detained for 37 days for their planned anti-sexual-harassment advocacy.
Against the backdrop of repression, the YFA communities expanded into the diaspora and the Chinese #MeToo movement emerged in 2018, marking the resilience and evolution of Chinese feminism.
Princeton GSS invites prominent activists and two of the “Feminist Five” – Zheng Churan (Datu), and Li Tingting (Maizi) – for a conversation on the resistance, repression and resilience of feminist activism in China.

This event is co-sponsored by: The Department of East Asian Studies, the Gender + Sexuality Resource Center, the Program in East Asian Studies, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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Co-hosted with: Gender + Sexuality Resource Center