Chinese women victims of non-consensual snapshots.

Documentary & Journalism

Noah Hirsch

We talked about it in our last Passe-Muraille. Recently, a case of “snapshot not consented“, either “Toupai” [sneak shot] hit the headlines on the Chinese internet. Concretely, of men use their smartphones to capture images of women without their knowledge, for their personal pleasure, or to resell them.

A Nanjing University sexual harassment investigation report in 2018 conducted with students, Nanjing University Alumni and Faculty Reveal Majority of Harassment Cases Are From Toupai's Practice [2018 Report on Sexual Harassment in Nanjing University]. The victims of this sexual violence are mostly women..