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The song appears to reference some of the most high-profile instances of violence against women.
“You use your fists, gasoline, and sulphuric acid … Flush us down the drain, from wedding bed to riverbed, stuff my body into a suitcase, or put it in a freezer on your balcony.”
In October, video footage of a man beating his wife in Shanxi spread widely across social media. Earlier this year Lhamo, a 30-year-old Tibetan woman, died from horrific burns. Police were reportedly investigating whether her husband had doused her with gasoline and set her alight while she was live streaming on social media. In July police arrested a man suspected of killing and dismembering his wife, and trying to dispose of her body parts in the sewers.
Chinese pop song breaks domestic violence taboos
‘ERASE MY NAME’: Popular singer Tan Weiwei’s ‘Xiao Juan’ has thrust into the spotlight the repeated tragedy of women beaten, set on fire or killed by their partners
By Helen Davidson / The Guardian, TAIPEI
In the torrent of comments below the video of Tan Weiwei’s (譚維維) latest single, one summed up the burgeoning anger of Chinese women: “The roar of the times should not be buried. This is a war song.”
For the past six months, Tan, one of China’s most popular singers, has been releasing singles from her album
3811. The songs tell the stories of women: a taxi driver, a charity worker, a single mother, a 60-year-old woman who cannot read. However, it is her latest single that has made the biggest impact, arriving at a key moment in China’s reckoning with gender-based violence and harassment.
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Dec 14, 2020
A new album from a Mandopop superstar is raising awareness of domestic abuse in China at a time when a series of brutal recent news stories have sparked widespread public outrage over endemic violence against women in the country. The newest album from 38-year-old pop singer and actress Tan Weiwei (aka Sitar Tan)
Since July, Tan Weiwei has been releasing new singles from her album “3811,” with each of the 11 songs chronicling stories of women from diverse backgrounds, including a taxi-driving single mom, an illiterate elderly woman, and a female poet from the Tang dynasty. On Friday, she released the final track, titled “Xiao Juan (Pseudonym),” for a generic name the Chinese authorities sometimes give to female victims of violent crimes.
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