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During her college years, according to PRI, Liang demonstrated for women’s public restrooms and shaved her head to protest school admissions policies that favored men. In 2012, police showed up on campus to ask about her campaigns. The authorities said that her activities reflected hostile western forces. Liang saw this as another example of the government trying to silence ongoing feminist efforts. Because of this, in 2016, Liang decided to leave China and apply to graduate school in New York. Liang knew other Chinese feminists who were in New York, and now, her goal is to build a bridge for information about the women’s movement in and out of China. Liang stated that because of censorship, not a lot of people know about feminism activism in China. Her goal is to let the world know that there are people fighting against the government in China. An informal network of Chinese citizens living abroad are working to support women’s rights activists and their efforts to combat sexual harassment and inequality back home. They are focusing on bringing the stories of activists and other women in China to a broad audience.

The movement Liang is part of has had a broad reach. She was interviewed on the Netflix show “Patriot Act” and Liang described the time security agents showed up to her home with her father’s boss to pressure her into canceling a seminar about women’s rights. While in the United States, Liang has worked closely with several dozen other Chinese feminists to coordinate events to raise awareness of this movement. Others in the same group have curated a traveling photography exhibit showing Chinese activists laying on the streets and protesting in bloody wedding dresses. In January 2017, Liang traveled to Washington D.C. and joined other Chinese feminists at the Women’s march. The Chinses government had banned news outlets and websites from covering the march, so the women shared their pictures and videos in an online group that included 1,000 people. Despite being able to protest and speak more freely in the United States, many Chinese women say that their fear of retribution has not disappeared upon leaving China.

While Liang continues to be an advocate in the United States, the Chinese government has continued to tighten its grip on feminists in the country. In 2018, according to the South China Morning Post, the government shut down its gender and sexuality center. The Guangzhou Gender and Sexuality Education Center (GSEC) was designed to fight the growing issue of sexual harassment in China and was created in 2016. GSEC set up the Network Anti Sexual Harassment and Asssault project to raise awareness of sexual violence, ran into trouble with censors before closure. GSEC created multiple surveys on sexual assault, many of which were deleted--up to 4 times in one month. The surveys stated that 75% of current and former female university students in China were victims of sexual harassment. GSEC released another survey about the Chinese media industry which raised this number to 80%. Its creator, activist Wei Tingting was one of the “Feminist Five,” a group of women who were arrested in 2015 by Chinese police after attempting to hand out anti-sexual harassment stickers. The “Feminist Five” would go on to serve as a symbol of disent towards the authoritarian state.

In addition, according to an article by the South China Morning Post, in March of 2018, Feminist Voices, a popular feminist social media account with over 180,000 followers on Weibo (China's rendition of twitter) was shut down. This was apparently even after its author attempted to sidestep censors by not using words such as “sexual harassment.” The #MeToo movement had to get creative to bypass the censors. According to the article, "Chinese social media users tag posts about the movement as "rice bunny," whose homonyms are mi(rice) and tu (bunny). This is done to avoid censorship as Beijing has sought to crack down on discussions of sexual assault and gender issues online."

While few feminist organizations remain, the feminist community is still active and powerful. In 2018, Xuecheng, a well-known Bhuddist monk stepped down from his position after a 95-page document accused him of sexual harassment.