Gender-based violence sparks debate on women safety on Chinese social media

Many described these incidents as an “epidemic of gender -based violence”. There was also outrage among netizens on the reporting of an incident which termed it as a “clash” rather than an “attack”. Debates on Chinese social media regarding the safety of women in China were sparked after a girl was brutally attacked by a group of men in Tangshan in Hebei province. On June 10, the video showing the girl being harassed went viral on Chinese social media applications like Weibo and WeChat. Social media nearly dominated the conversations around the viral video. It also became trending on Baidu,…