Born: 27 January 1959, China
Died: NA
Country most active: China, Germany
Also known as: 严歌苓, 嚴歌苓
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
Modern censorship is particularly visible in China, where the government has significant influence over the major internet sites and services. In February 2022, Chinese-American author Geling Yan published an article on the WeChat account of Survivors’ Poetry, a contemporary Chinese poetry magazine, expressing her rage at the mistreatment of women. The article soon disappeared from WeChat, and searches of Yan’s name yielded no results on Weibo, China’s largest social media platform. Weibo had also shut down several feminist accounts for “hyping up opposition between different groups,” and authorities had previously censored posts about sexual harassment. Yan’s comments were also removed from results offered by the Chinese search engine Baidu, and the page about Yan on its online encyclopaedia Baidu Baike, was removed.