A Chinese #MeToo Movement? Not Yet

Expand A vendor sells #MeToo badges a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California U.S. November 12, 2017. © 2017 Reuters On January 1, Luo Qianqian, a Chinese scientist living in the United States, along with four other women, accused Chen Xiaowu, a professor at Beijing’s prestigious Beihang University, of sexually harassing them when they were his students. The accusations were widely reported by Chinese media, and later that day the university suspended him from teaching and launched an investigation. “I hope this act of weiquan…

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