Fighting on Behalf of China’s Women — From the United States<br />In September 2015, when the Chinese government and the United Nations co-organized the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality<br />and Women’s Empowerment in New York and President Xi Jinping made a state visit to the United States, we held a photography exhibit called Aboveground: 40 Moments of Transformation near the U.N. headquarters, documenting the performance art and other actions of Chinese feminists.<br />Ms. Lu, 45, a former journalist at the state-run China Women’s News<br />and founder of the influential online platform Women’s Voices, had come to New York from Beijing on March 5, 2015, to attend a meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.<br />Among them were Lu Pin and more than 20 other Chinese feminists who live in the United States and belong to the Chinese Feminism Collective, a new nongovernmental organization to "support feminist activities<br />that are facing sustained political pressure in China." Using a WeChat account, they sent reports from the Washington march back to China.<br />In an interview, Ms. Lu, who was appointed a visiting scholar at Columbia University<br />and is working on a master’s degree in gender studies at the State University of New York at Albany, talked about opening a new front for Chinese feminism in the United States.<br />In the second half of 2016, an independent feminist theater group began meeting in New York with the aim of performing "Our Vaginas, Ourselves." This was originally created<br />by several young feminists in Beijing who were inspired by the American work "The Vagina Monologues" to make a similar examination of Chinese sex and gender issues.<br />In 2015, the case of the Feminist Five attracted the support of feminists around<br />the world, which made me appreciate the importance of international solidarity.
