Beijing: Aged just 26 and still fresh from what she playfully describes as a "marriage of political convenience", Li Tingting is still adjusting to the attention – both welcome and otherwise – that comes with being the face of China's youthful new wave of feminist activists. Li arrives for our interview greeting us with mock admonishment. This meeting would doubtlessly invite more harassment from local police, who monitor her mobile phone and WeChat account, she said. "When police ask me what I'm up to I tell them I'm busy setting up an organic egg farm [at her parents' village on the outskirts of Beijing]." It is a mischievously defiant streak often shared by...
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