Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism

This essay offers a timely analysis of how the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian warfare is observed in China through gendered prism. Accounting for an anti-West axis China’s current political climate, we articulate misogyny and nationalism converge Chinese social media users’ discussions about military crisis currently unfolding East Europe. revealed by vulgar interpretation relationship sexualisation Ukrainian/Russian women, which are both widespread Chinese-language sphere. With patriarchal specificities Party-State polity mind, discussion yields feminist perspective to foreground nationalist politics.