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The Sensitive Period, Big Vs, and the Diaspora: A Brief Account of #MeToo in China

Author: Jinman Zhang

SMSociety '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society, pp. 224-2322019

The author examines the context surrounding the #MeToo movement in China, how hashtags were used to circumvent censorship, and the role that Chinese diasporic communities played in the process. The results demonstrate the practice of disguised collective action, and the choices made by different actors in attempting to circumvent censorship.