China’s Universities Face a #MeToo Moment

Government tries to censor student accounts of sexual harassment posted on social media

BEIJING—A decades-old case of alleged rape and suicide at a prestigious university is giving China a #MeToo moment—and showing the constraints confronted by social movements in the authoritarian-ruled country.

Since the rape allegation against a professor resurfaced earlier this month, a rolling wave of calls for action has followed, with three professors at another university in Beijing being accused of sexual harassment and a teaching assistant at a third Beijing university being accused of rape.

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