Dr Xie joins panel on rising Chinese radical feminisms at AAS-in-Asia 2025
Dr Xumeng Xie took part in a panel discussion at the 2025 AAS-in-Asia Conference (June 1-4), co-organised by the Association for Asian Studies and Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal. The panel focused on the recent rise of jinü (radical feminism) in China and across Asia, spotlighting the transnational nature of feminist resistance under intensifying authoritarian and patriarchal regimes.
Dr Xie's paper, titled 'Queering or Abolishing the Marriage-Family Continuum? The Imaginations About Radical Intimacies Within Chinese Queer Communities and Radical Feminists', examined the diverging imaginaries of intimacy emerging from Chinese queer communities and radical feminist circles, particularly in relation to marriage, kinship, and the state.
The panel brought together scholars working on radical feminist movements in China and South Korea, highlighting challenges shaped by neoliberalism, authoritarianism and gendered violence. Discussions addressed the strategies and imaginaries that activists are using to resist normative structures of intimacy and governance. Topics included the 'global' history of radical feminist movement, grassroots organising, growing digital surveillance and the contemporary practices of diasporic Chinese feminists mobilising across borders. The panel aimed to foster transnational feminist dialogue and build new frameworks for theorising feminist organising and intersectional solidarity in the global Asia.