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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kanis Leung

As China censors homegrown feminism, a feminist scholar from Japan is on its bestseller lists

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In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence.

So a 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who's not married and does not have children is an unlikely celebrity on the country’s tightly censored internet.

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