China's business drinking culture spurs #MeToo moment

Forced imbibing is often used as a test of obedience or an excuse to grope women

20210818 MeToo China

Supporters hold #MeToo and other signs outside a court before singer Zhou Xiaoxuan, also known by her online name Xianzi, arrives for a sexual harassment case involving a Chinese state TV host, in Beijing on December 2, 2020. © Reuters

MARRIAN ZHOU and YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writers

NEW YORK/ PALO ALTO -- Peggy from Shanghai remembers well an academic convention she attended during her college years. It wasn't the moving speech by an executive from a well-known public company, but what happened later over dinner.

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