Xiaohongshu<\/a> and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, many of which question whether the school has the right to judge her personal life and elevate it to a matter of national import.<\/p>\nIn an announcement posted last week, Dalian Polytechnic University in the country\u2019s northeast declared that the student would be \u201cexpelled\u201d in 60 days, saying she violated the university rule against \u201chaving improper interactions with foreigners that damage national dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour misbehaviors on December 16, 2024, caused a terrible negative impact,\u201d the announcement said, without giving details on what constituted the \u201cmisbehaviors.\u201d The university released her name, but AP is not publishing it out of privacy concerns.<\/p>\n
The incident taps into multiple issues in China<\/p>\n
The university\u2019s actions illustrate a number of issues percolating in modern Chinese society, including discussions around gender bias and a full-on push toward nationalism.<\/p>\n
Chinese internet users have connected the accused university student to videos posted by Danylo Teslenko, also known as Zeus, a professional Ukrainian gamer showing him being intimate with an Asian-looking young woman in a hotel room. AP cannot independently verify if the woman in the video is the student.<\/p>\n
Some on social media called the school\u2019s decision to expel the student a sign of the \u201cTaliban style,\u201d by which a particular nation or group claims ownership over a woman\u2019s body. Others call it misogyny, asking if a Chinese man would be considered a \u201cnational pride\u201d if he had sex with a foreign woman.<\/p>\n
The Paper, a state-run newspaper in Shanghai, said it was not just \u201cinappropriate\u201d to publish the student\u2019s full name but also \u201cmay even violate the Personal Information Protection Law.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is improper to graft private affairs onto the public domain for public disposal,\u201d said The Paper.<\/p>\n
Teslenko, the gamer, confirmed on Sunday that he posted \u201ca few videos on Telegram with a girl I met in Shanghai\u201d but later deleted them \u201cas soon as I understood the seriousness of the situation,\u201d according to his post on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur faces were visible, but there was no explicit content or anything disrespectful in those videos,\u201d the post said, \u201cI have never said that Chinese girls are easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Media reports said Teslenko and the student met at the final of the Perfect World Shanghai Major, a gaming competition held in December 2024.<\/p>\n
An email sent to Dalian Polytechnic University was not immediately answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese university announced the expulsion of a female student for \u201cdamaging national dignity\u201d after she was accused…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1578,16956,407,25742,57,50,6043,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-72224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-discrimination","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-gender","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-shanghai","15":"tag-world","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114873434422215278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}