The #MeToo movement to expose harassment has become a worldwide phenomenon, but in a country like China - a one-party state with strict censorship - women have fewer ways to challenge the status quo.
That hasn't stopped them from using a combination of two emojis - a bowl of rice and a rabbit - to get round the authorities.
In early January, Luo Xixi, a female graduate of a well-known Beijing university wrote an open letter on Chinese social media platform Weibo describing her former professor had tried to pressure her into sex.
The university launched an investigation which found Chen Xiaowu guilty of sexual harassment and removed him from his post.
While this has happened in China before, the issue has for the most part been ignored in public discourse. This time it was different.
What followed was a movement spearheaded by Chinese feminists, university students and alumni across China, but soon some universities warned students to tone down their activism. There were reports of open letters being deleted and hashtags censored.
Source : bbc
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