He introduced himself as the godfather of the law. chinese cinema and boasted of having slept with hundreds of students. Acting teacher case du YingzheEven discounting the exaggerations is one of the greatest. scandals in the industry cinema inside Chinese and his arrest confirms another turning point in the movement feminist ‘Me too’. Many applicants condemned abuses Y violations already, and if these accounts of the prestigious actress’ trainer are false, the turmoil has only just begun.
A chubby man in his forties, Du was a director and professor at Yingluzhantai, an art and experimentation institute that served as the springboard to the Film Academy. Beijing (BFA for its English abbreviation) and other luminous centers. He had received his master’s degrees from the BFA and was presumed to have had an impact. Shi Ziyi, former student and current ‘influencer’ with nearly two million followers revealed a week ago that Du just didn’t fit the artistic criteria. In an extensive text on his Weibo account, the Chinese Twitter, he revealed that he was sexually abused at the age of 17 and included scenarios about the first of the assignments he was given. masturbation and sexual fantasies. He added that another student of the same age was raped and dropped out of school. pregnant. According to the professor, his excesses lasted 15 years.
Du an exposed psychological abuse To the disciples who attracted him and subdued the most timid and weak, Shi explained. She added that during the most decisive period of their lives, they took advantage of their fears and suggested that they would achieve their goals through sex. “He was trying to persuade us. sex “It was the same as art, there would be no art without sex, and no art school would accept us.” TV In China, she even censored the flashy décolleté in period dramas, so it’s hard to understand Du’s stubbornness in sex education.
up to 19 victims
The school cut ties with its former principal and promised tighter controls. Du muttered something as if to apologize to everyone. woman that could hurt. He also dismissed the accusations as “exaggerated and false” and justified his “controversial but effective” methods as the best way to “change the destiny” of his students and help them “achieve their goals”.
this complaint Until Du was escalated to the fourth most-mentioned question on Weibo, it circulated freely on the networks, adding testimonies from victims – there are already 19 – and millions of comments. The case was captured by the national press, triggering a police investigation, and Du was eventually arrested. stoped. Another man from the school was also arrested, Zhao Weixianfor photographing students changing their clothes.
Internet, complaint area
The internet is some of the best news to happen to China in recent years, and is often belittled by the West with censorship implications that any Chinese know how to bargain. internet is out impunity corruption and other excesses of power Communist Party Inherited from the Mandarinate. Now one complaint is enough, perhaps a luxury watch photo of a local official, or a sexual assault by a teacher to create a tsunami that will bring the issue to the fore. The control does not reach the party leadership, but if we compare it with the previous open bar, it is not an unrelated advance.
The ‘me too’ movement came to China late and the traditional mentality and sexist. The scale allows opposite readings. Fear of criminal charges waned, at least on the networks, and famous personalities in fields such as television, university, religion or sports. China has underlined its zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and passed ambitious laws against a problem that had previously been swept under the rug. But many cases don’t go to court due to stigma and the difficulty of proving harassment, which can be fatal if the attacker sues. victim for slander.