BEIJING—A student at an elite Chinese university accused the school of trying to muzzle her #MeToo activism in a surprising open letter that set off a scramble by the country’s censors.
In the letter, which began circulating online Monday, Yue Xin said she joined other Peking University students in submitting an open-records request about a 20-year-old rape allegation involving a then-professor. The school rejected the request last Friday, the letter said, and two days later a university official burst into her room late at...