{"id":37761,"date":"2021-10-07T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/instead-i-am-the-criminal-chinas-metoo-figure-speaks-out-after-case-fails"},"modified":"2021-10-07T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T03:24:15","slug":"instead-i-am-the-criminal-chinas-metoo-figure-speaks-out-after-case-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37761","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Instead I am the criminal\u2019: China\u2019s MeToo figure speaks out after case fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if her appeal against sexual harassment verdict is unsuccessful, Xianzi is proud that more women now feel they can share their experiences <\/p>\n<p>Sitting inside a Beijing courthouse late at night last month, Zhou Xiaoxuan and her lawyers came to a quick decision. Their years-long effort to seek justice for her alleged sexual harassment by one of the country\u2019s most popular celebrities was clearly not going to go their way. In a short statement the court ruled she had tendered insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n<p>On Weibo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/14\/court-rules-against-woman-who-became-face-of-chinas-metoo-movement\">she wrote to her supporters<\/a> with a list of criticisms of the judgment and process. \u201cFailure is not shameful, and I am honoured to have stood with you together in the past three years \u2026 Thank you very much, everyone, I will definitely appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/instead-i-am-the-criminal-chinas-metoo-figure-speaks-out-after-case-fails\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if her appeal against sexual harassment verdict is unsuccessful, Xianzi is proud that more women now feel they can share their experiences Sitting inside a Beijing courthouse late at night last month, Zhou Xiaoxuan and her lawyers came to a quick &#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":[50,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761","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=37761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions\/37762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}