Report shows how Beijing downplays rising sexual harassment in Chinese campuses

The recent incident, where a girl accused a faculty member of a top Chinese university of sexual assault, triggered massive outrage and further underscored the rising trend of such incidents in China and how Beijing is downplaying such cases, a report by the New York Times stated on Thursday.

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The victim student, in a viral video, alleged that a prominent professor at Renmin University’s School of Liberal Arts in Beijing had been sexually harassing her for two years. Shortly after being posted, the video drew millions of views and attracted an online outrage against the faculty member named, Wang Guiyuan, vice-dean and Communist Party head of Renmin University’s School of Liberal Arts in Beijing. The episode again reflected the growing pressure that Chinese academic in