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Feminist Five is a group of five women who were part of the #Me Too feminist movement in China.

History
The Feminist Five is made up of:
 * Li Tingting aka Li Maizi
 * Wang Man
 * Wei Tingting
 * Wu Rongrong
 * Zheng Churan

In 2015, the women were planning on celebrating International Women's Day.

They sang on the Beijing subway to raise awareness about abuse and discrimination. They also held a protest where they wore bloodstained bridal gowns to encourage women to stand up against domestic violence.

The five women were arrested a couple days before International Women's Day in different cities, for planning to handing out stickers about sexual harassment on public transportation in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou. Due to their arrest, the five women became a symbol of feminist dissent against a patriarchal and authoritarian state, and hence being called the “Feminist Five”.

International response
At the same time, China was to co-host a UN summit on women’s rights in New York, to mark the 20th anniversary of Beijing’s World Conference on Women in 1995. The Feminist Five made international headlines when they were arrested and held for 37 days. There was such outrage in a global backlash that the women were released.

In 2018, Leta Hong Fincher wrote a book called Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, which discusses the Feminist Five and Feminism in China.