![]() ![]() But the fact is, with intimate partner violence, we’re never going to know the exact numbers. Of course, the difference is that China has a zero-COVID policy, so the lockdowns in China have been extraordinarily severe. I don’t think that’s really unique to China. And there was also quite a bit of feminist activism surrounding the issue of rising domestic violence in various Chinese cities. ![]() I think this was actually true around the world, not just in China: COVID certainly was tied to a rise in reported incidents of domestic violence. With two decades of experience, first as a journalist, and then as a research scholar, closely following women’s issues and gender inequality in China, how does International Women’s Day 2022 look to you? What’s changed in the last two years? How did COVID affect Chinese women? This is an edited and abridged transcript of part of our conversation. We talked about the state of Chinese feminism today, tennis star Péng Shuài 彭帅 (who is now more famous for her #MeToo allegations), the vigorous activism around the chained woman of Xuzhou, the birth of grassroots feminist spaces, and Beijing’s designs for Han Chinese women to bear more children. Leta is the author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (2018), and, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (2016). ![]()
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