>Chinese actress Zheng Shuang was effectively “cancelled” by the feminist movement after it was reported that she’d had two surrogate children through overseas services, whom she later abandoned.
I think that’s the most reasonable reason I’ve heard yet for cancelling someone.
Interesting piece, thank you.
Mike Boosh
3 years ago
They sound as ghastly as the Western version.
Alex Lekas
3 years ago
Whether China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) likes it or not, over the past year the country’s nascent feminist movement has become a force to be reckoned with. Good luck with that. Next I’ll be reading about the country’s ethnic and religious minorities becoming forces to be reckoned with.
Saul D
3 years ago
This reads like a new Karen meme for China – very little to do with political rights for women. It mentions shopping, social media frivolity, outrage at a TV show, and Daily Mail style anti-surrogacy complaints.
Meanwhile, of the 25 members of the current Chinese Politburo (commencement 2017), only one is female…
So where is the real news of Chinese feminists standing up for the Uyghur women against enforced sterilization and sexual violence?
stephen f.
3 years ago
I don’t think that we should mess with China’s anything-and I think that they should return the favor.
Veritas Lex
3 years ago
I clicked expecting some discussion of the genuinely sexist attitudes towards women that can be found in China – the concept of ‘leftover women’ for example – and got an article on how some young Chinese women are engaged in similar online ‘activism’ to that which pervades Twitter – all sound and fury, signifying nothing. Call me when they’re up in arms about their government’s involvement in forced abortions and sterilisations, when they’re fighting for equal rights for ethnic and religious minorities, when they’re doing more than getting upset over the banning of a fan-fiction site for goodness’ sake. And may they be reminded, via stark examples from the West, of how LGBT activism and women’s rights make very uneasy bedfellows.
David George
3 years ago
The Chinese feminists obsession with “female-oriented anime with a focus on fantasy erotic relationships between men” caught my attention. More than a little strange. Perhaps UnHerd could dispatch Julie Bindel forthwith for some on the ground investigation as to how that one is all down to the patriarchy.
Prashant Kotak
3 years ago
Absolutely fascinating – and (to me at least) a little terrifying. The Borg have arrived.
Derek M
3 years ago
Feminists or anybody else in China have precisely as much power as the CCP decides they will have, let them try and go against that and see what happens
Peter KE
3 years ago
Interesting article.
Charles Hedges
3 years ago
Is their a tradition of chivalry towards women in China ?
K Sheedy
3 years ago
Very interesting article. Critics suggesting that Chinese Feminists are focused on a strange set of causes are missing the author’s point: This feminism is not a lot like the western version so will take up different causes. Therefore a western feminist will justifiably criticise it.
Also, working in a one party dictatorship it will have a relatively small impact.
Last edited 3 years ago by K Sheedy
Allan Edward Tierney
3 years ago
The sinister attempts by UnHerd to demonise China demonstrates a degree of irresponsibility that is nothing short of breathtaking considering the recent causation of mass death and destruction due to the regime change policies of the West engendered through such verbiage. China has every right to expand her economy just as the West has sought to do by a variety of much more sinister practices. The articles appearing recently on UnHerd are nothing short of a concerted propaganda campaign Goebbels would have been proud of.
>Chinese actress Zheng Shuang was effectively “cancelled” by the feminist movement after it was reported that she’d had two surrogate children through overseas services, whom she later abandoned.
I think that’s the most reasonable reason I’ve heard yet for cancelling someone.
Interesting piece, thank you.
They sound as ghastly as the Western version.
Whether China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) likes it or not, over the past year the country’s nascent feminist movement has become a force to be reckoned with.
Good luck with that. Next I’ll be reading about the country’s ethnic and religious minorities becoming forces to be reckoned with.
This reads like a new Karen meme for China – very little to do with political rights for women. It mentions shopping, social media frivolity, outrage at a TV show, and Daily Mail style anti-surrogacy complaints.
Meanwhile, of the 25 members of the current Chinese Politburo (commencement 2017), only one is female…
So where is the real news of Chinese feminists standing up for the Uyghur women against enforced sterilization and sexual violence?
I don’t think that we should mess with China’s anything-and I think that they should return the favor.
I clicked expecting some discussion of the genuinely sexist attitudes towards women that can be found in China – the concept of ‘leftover women’ for example – and got an article on how some young Chinese women are engaged in similar online ‘activism’ to that which pervades Twitter – all sound and fury, signifying nothing. Call me when they’re up in arms about their government’s involvement in forced abortions and sterilisations, when they’re fighting for equal rights for ethnic and religious minorities, when they’re doing more than getting upset over the banning of a fan-fiction site for goodness’ sake. And may they be reminded, via stark examples from the West, of how LGBT activism and women’s rights make very uneasy bedfellows.
The Chinese feminists obsession with “female-oriented anime with a focus on fantasy erotic relationships between men” caught my attention. More than a little strange.
Perhaps UnHerd could dispatch Julie Bindel forthwith for some on the ground investigation as to how that one is all down to the patriarchy.
Absolutely fascinating – and (to me at least) a little terrifying. The Borg have arrived.
Feminists or anybody else in China have precisely as much power as the CCP decides they will have, let them try and go against that and see what happens
Interesting article.
Is their a tradition of chivalry towards women in China ?
Very interesting article. Critics suggesting that Chinese Feminists are focused on a strange set of causes are missing the author’s point: This feminism is not a lot like the western version so will take up different causes. Therefore a western feminist will justifiably criticise it.
Also, working in a one party dictatorship it will have a relatively small impact.
The sinister attempts by UnHerd to demonise China demonstrates a degree of irresponsibility that is nothing short of breathtaking considering the recent causation of mass death and destruction due to the regime change policies of the West engendered through such verbiage. China has every right to expand her economy just as the West has sought to do by a variety of much more sinister practices. The articles appearing recently on UnHerd are nothing short of a concerted propaganda campaign Goebbels would have been proud of.