{"id":47319,"date":"2022-08-11T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/chinese-court-rejects-sexual-harassment-case-appeal-zhou-xiaoxuan-metoo"},"modified":"2022-08-11T00:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:03:15","slug":"woman-at-centre-of-china-metoo-case-vows-not-to-give-up-after-appeal-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47319","title":{"rendered":"Woman at centre of China #MeToo case vows not to give up after appeal rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhou Xiaoxuan, who alleges TV host groped her, hopes case proves \u2018difficulty of being a woman\u2019 in China<\/p>\n<p>The woman at the centre of a landmark case in China\u2019s #MeToo movement has vowed not to give up after a court rejected her appeal for an apology and damages.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 Zhou Xiaoxuan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/china-metoo-movement-gets-its-moment-in-court-as-sexual-harassment-case-begins\">accused a high-profile state TV presenter<\/a>, Zhu Jun, of forcibly kissing and groping her during a 2014 internship. The case inspired many others to share their experiences of sexual assault and caused a social media storm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/chinese-court-rejects-sexual-harassment-case-appeal-zhou-xiaoxuan-metoo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhou Xiaoxuan, who alleges TV host groped her, hopes case proves \u2018difficulty of being a woman\u2019 in ChinaThe woman at the centre of a landmark case in China\u2019s #MeToo movement has vowed not to give up after a court rejected her appeal for an apology and d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,646,2410,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-gender","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47319","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47320,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47319\/revisions\/47320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}