{"id":32043,"date":"2021-05-13T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T04:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/13\/chinas-feminists-protest-against-wave-of-online-abuse-with-internet-violence-museum"},"modified":"2021-05-13T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T04:27:52","slug":"chinas-feminists-protest-against-wave-of-online-abuse-with-internet-violence-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32043","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s feminists protest against wave of online abuse with \u2018internet violence museum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing nationalistic fervour is fuelling a torrent of vitriol against anyone speaking out against the state, especially women\u2019s rights activists <\/p>\n<p>Late last month, an \u201cunknown hill in the Chinese desert\u201d was blanketed in scores of large red and white banners, flapping vitriol in the breeze. \u201cI hope you die, bitch,\u201d said one. \u201cLittle bitch, screw the feminists,\u201d said others.<\/p>\n<p>They were all actual messages sent to women, a direct act of harassment anonymised by social media. They were sent during weeks of intense debate about the treatment of women on platforms such as Weibo, sparked by the abuse of Xiao Meili who posted video of a man who threw hot liquid at her after she asked him to stop smoking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/13\/chinas-feminists-protest-against-wave-of-online-abuse-with-internet-violence-museum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing nationalistic fervour is fuelling a torrent of vitriol against anyone speaking out against the state, especially women\u2019s rights activists Late last month, an \u201cunknown hill in the Chinese desert\u201d was blanketed in scores of large red and white &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,53,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043\/revisions\/32044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}