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Emily Feng 冯哲芸

Nov 2, 2021 • 3 tweets • 2 min read

Unverified post from Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, taken down from Weibo within minutes, in which she claims (again unverified) that she was assaulted by former Vice premier Zhang Gaoli, before willingly becoming his mistress. Highest public #MeToo allegation in China

China’s quickly-stifled #MeToo movement has ensnared academics, journalists, NGO workers.... but never had a high-level Party official been accused. The burden of proof and the political pressure brought to bear will be huge. And Peng herself admits to having no evidence.

So quickly are social media posts being censored on Chinese sites about this that people are resorting to using #tennis and #melon (meaning drama) in Chinese to talk about this... both terms are trending on Weibo now.

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1/ This story has generated vitriolic backlash in China, and reporting it turned out to be more difficult than I imagined. A Tweet thread 🧵on reporting in China these days:

Last year, we lined up interviews with factories and government noodle officials (yes, they exist)

https://twitter.com/EmilyZFeng/status/1483632947370467331

2/ The (entirely private) factories told us later they in fact needed provincial propaganda department approval to do any interview. This is not true. China's own laws from its State Council say foreign journalists merely need interviewee consent. ipc.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wgjzzhzn/2…

3/ Soon, Guangxi propaganda officials called me and offered to accompany us on a snail noodle tour. I politely declined. Within literally an hour, every single factory and government official who'd agreed to an interview had canceled on us. Sadly, this is the norm these days.

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Aug 3, 2020

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A few weeks ago, @Amy_23_Cheng and I journeyed to rural Shandong. We found an immense effort to reshape China's vast countryside by "pulling" thousands of villages out and moving residents "up" into high rises.
npr.org/2020/08/01/898…

When we arrived at one village partially demolished only days before, despite a provincial order forbidding forcible demolitions, I heard something I've never heard before in China: "THE JOURNALISTS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED." We were quickly swarmed.

Authorities consolidate villages to more efficiently deliver public services. But many don't want the free, smaller housing or pay extra for a bigger space, below, & leave fields behind. "They look nice but the houses don't work," one man, beaten and his house demolished, told us

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Sep 26, 2019

THREAD: 80% of imams in Henan banished. The remaining subjected to ideological training - sometimes lasting days. Islamic schools in Yunnan, Henan and Ningxia outright closed. Where Xinjiang was in 2015, the Hui across China are now going thru. My story:
npr.org/2019/09/26/763…

I got past checkpoints into Weizhou, Ningxia, where more than 1 yr ago residents staved off a demolition order. Residents told me last Nov they had to sign letters agreeing to "renovate" the mosque. State employees wld be fired if they didn't. Here's what Mosque looks like today:

A mass campaign to remove all Arabic traces, including domes from mosques, Arabic dress like the abaya, is happening across China. Surprisingly, hardest hit may be not just Ningxia but Henan. But the biggest changes are happening inside the mosque.

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