Jiayun (Jenny) Feng is the Society and Culture Editor at The China Project. Born and raised in Shanghai, she is a bilingual journalist committed to reporting on China-related issues with a global perspective.
Wu Xieyu was a smart, popular student at China’s equivalent to Harvard, whose social media accounts showed a promising young man who loved his mother. But now he has been sentenced to death for brutally killing her with a dumbbell.
A major university with three campuses in Shanghai is making a list of all “non-heterosexual” students, according to a leaked document. Is the school just worried about collective political organizing, or does it want to police the bedroom too?
A popular Hunan TV host is under investigation after a woman alleged that he raped her in 2019.
Drinking culture and sexual misconduct at Alibaba
Maybe the lesson we’ll learn about China’s great tech and education business crackdown of the summer of 2021 is that you can never put an entrepreneurial company down: New Oriental, China’s original scrappy education startup, is down but very far from out.
A naked man forced his way into a woman’s hotel room in Shanghai. She’s suing the hotel for an apology and to compel the hotel chain to adopt new security policies.
Public awareness of sexual misconduct is at an all-time high in China after the arrest of pop star Kris Wu last week. Now, after a female employee documented her alleged assault in an 11-page document, China's biggest ecommerce company is facing a reckoning.
Gong Lijiao won Olympic gold for China, but China Central TV asked her about marriage plans. Chinese internet users are not amused.
A pop singer has been detained by police on suspicion of rape, and Chinese social media is celebrating.