In the early morning of April 2, 2023, in Changde, Hunan, a 17-year-old girl fell to her death from the 22nd floor. The victim, Zhang Anmin, was sexually assaulted by multiple people after leaving home to work at the age of 14. After returning to school, due to refusing the advances of a lower-ranking male student, Zhang Anmin was slandered and bullied by classmates, forcing her to drop out again. Later, after a second stint working outside, she was brutally raped, became pregnant, contracted syphilis, and gave birth to a daughter. Subsequently, while working at a KTV, she was beaten for an hour and mysteriously fell to her death at a regular customer’s home. Even after her death, Zhang Anmin could not find peace; her mother, claiming to want to give her child a happy childhood, continuously incited public opinion and sought the child’s biological father, ostensibly to give the child a better life. In reality, this was merely feudal patriarchal thinking, treating the child as a cash cow, demanding the biological father take responsibility for raising her, even charging fees for joining chat groups on Douyin. This resulted in the victim being attacked even after her death. Zhang Anmin’s tragedy is not only her personal misfortune but also another tragic consequence of the oppression of women under the ideological foundation of Confucian “Three Bonds and Five Constants” used to maintain the rule of the Chinese revisionist bourgeoisie after the restoration of capitalism. Today, as Marxists, we must not only defend the victim’s reputation but also expose every blood debt caused by the reactionary rule of the Chinese revisionists!
Zhang Anmin was born in 2005 in Chenzhou, Hunan. As a left-behind child, she spent her childhood in her hometown in Heze, Shandong. She was known for her intelligence and diligence, which left a deep impression on villagers. Zhang Anmin excelled academically and had a strong interest in literature and history, hoping to become a children’s author in the future. Her parents worked together in Shenzhen in her early years. From various incidents that followed, it is clear that her parents held very strict Confucian patriarchal views. Her father, during his work, was promoted and became wealthy, and he desperately wanted a son to inherit and expand the family estate. Because of his higher social status and increasing moral corruption, he began to cheat on his wife. Her mother, having given birth to three daughters, faced her husband’s dissatisfaction, and he insisted on divorcing her. Her in-laws were extremely arrogant, shamelessly saying, “My son’s affair during marriage is his own business,” and “If you can’t have a son, the husband should cheat.” Under Confucian patriarchal law, the feudal patriarch treats women solely as reproductive tools and sexual objects. After the divorce, her in-laws refused to take the children and even refused to pay basic support and education fees. The reactionary legal system, claiming to be fair and just and “serving the people,” had no real effect—only superficial “enforcement,” with no effective measures against the in-laws who refused to pay.
The divorce of her parents and her in-laws’ refusal to pay any expenses left Zhang Anmin’s family unable to afford her schooling and other costs. In the fall of her second year of middle school, her father refused to pay tuition, and her mother, running a beauty salon, could not afford her school fees, forcing Zhang Anmin to drop out. Thus, feudal parents deprived her of the right to education. Moreover, at only 13, Zhang Anmin began working outside to support the family. In this patriarchal society, women are socially marginalized, and the reactionary laws also prohibit child labor, making it nearly impossible for a 13-year-old girl to find legitimate work through normal channels. Additionally, after the reactionary restoration of capitalism, reactionary cultural industries flooded society with pornographic content, severely corrupting social morals. The bourgeoisie and upper petty bourgeoisie, with their economic power, forced women to satisfy their vile desires. Based on this, an extremely reactionary industry chain emerged—underage girls being prostituted and involved in “introducing” roles. According to cases publicly disclosed by the Hunan Provincial Department of Justice, “In Chenzhou, Hunan, some karaoke venues often use underage girls as bait to attract customers,” and if they successfully introduce an underage girl, they can earn “several hundred to over a thousand yuan in referral fees.” It’s obvious why bars would involve young girls in soliciting customers. As a result, Zhang Anmin suffered relentless persecution from the reactionary social hellscape.
Under the “introduction” (which is essentially deception) by her “best friend,” Zhang Anmin was sent to work as a waitress and promoter at a local bar. During this job, she was sexually assaulted more than once. More absurdly, when the bar was forcibly shut down by reactionary authorities for “engaging minors in profit-making escort services,” the capitalists running the bar refused to pay her wages, and the reactionary government took no action. After returning home from the bar, her mother, although noticing that Zhang Anmin had become much more silent, did not inquire about what had happened over the past month, as she was entirely focused on her beauty business. Four months later, her family scraped together enough tuition for her to return to school. However, the reactionary school was not a paradise; Zhang Anmin faced patriarchal persecution again. According to her sister, a male classmate expressed “liking” her, but after she rejected him, he became furious, spreading rumors about her and subjecting her to savage slut-shaming and bullying. Clearly, this “liking” was merely a guise for patriarchal oppression—using superficial attraction to mask the ongoing repression of women. As a school controlled by reactionary authorities, it not only failed to help Zhang Anmin seek justice but also sided with the bullies and patriarchal forces, unjustly forcing her to drop out again. Her mother, involved in her beauty business, inevitably had connections with reactionary bourgeoisie and upper petty bourgeoisie, which led her to adopt a weak, submissive stance in this struggle. In later interviews, her mother admitted, “I wanted the school to give me an explanation, but I had no relatives in Chenzhou, just divorced, and the in-laws couldn’t help. A woman with three children, how could I fight or resist?” Once again, Zhang Anmin was deprived of her right to education due to reactionary patriarchal oppression.
During her second dropout, her mother’s focus was entirely on her own wealth accumulation. To help run her beauty shop, she wanted her daughter to learn “etiquette for social interactions” and sent her to study at a traditional Chinese medicine health center opened by a friend in Guangxi. In this way, her mother’s selfishness pushed her daughter into another patriarchal trap. The “friend” in Guangxi first confiscated Zhang Anmin’s ID card, restricting her personal freedom, and then barbarically assaulted her. In Guangxi, Zhang Anmin endured assaults from multiple people. When she resisted repeatedly, the “friend” had no choice but to send her back home. However, the cold indifference of relatives in feudal families and the shame imposed by reactionary Confucian society made Zhang Anmin hesitant to speak about her experiences in Guangxi. Only when her body showed obvious signs of trauma did her cousin from Shandong take her to a county hospital. By then, 14-year-old Zhang Anmin was eight and a half months pregnant and diagnosed with severe syphilis. This finally alerted her mother to her abnormal behavior over the past few months. Reactionary laws in China stipulate that fetuses beyond 28 weeks are considered to have “social attributes,” and unless the mother’s life is threatened, abortion is prohibited. Such laws unjustly force victims like Zhang Anmin to bear the terrible consequences inflicted by rapists.
In February 2020, 15-year-old Zhang Anmin gave birth at a hospital. At only 15, she became a single mother due to the persecution of the reactionary Confucian society. Her mother, instead of seeking justice for her daughter, chose to go to temples as a volunteer, using religion as an opium to numb herself and her daughter. However, patriarchal persecution continued. To “give the child paternal love,” her mother sought out the child’s biological father, repeatedly forcing Zhang Anmin to recall painful past events, and conducting DNA tests one by one. Even if they found the father, how could a morally bankrupt rapist take responsibility for raising the child? Later, Zhang Anmin painfully begged her mother to stop searching for the father and to drop the matter. Her mother then chose to compromise, refusing to seek justice for her daughter. Her sister, somewhat sympathetic, wanted to care for her but, removed from society and her student life, could not truly empathize with her sister’s suffering. She often couldn’t answer or resolve her sister’s worries about raising the child. During the winter vacation of 2023, the sisters worked together at a barbecue restaurant. Living and working together strengthened their bond, and they often shared their dreams and future plans after work, seemingly bringing some hope to Zhang Anmin’s tragic life. But this happiness was short-lived. After the holiday, her sister returned to university, and Zhang Anmin, perhaps disappointed with her feudal family, took a train alone to Changde.
Changde is an important city for the reactionary government’s tobacco production, and the monopoly profits from tobacco have created a parasitic class of exploiters. Their luxurious consumption has led to a highly developed entertainment industry, which inevitably includes pornographic industries and related “introduction” services. At just 17, Zhang Anmin was once again deceived into the hellish trap of a KTV under the guise of “working in the entertainment industry.” One day after starting her job at this KTV, she was brutally beaten for an hour by three individuals. Three days later, in the early morning of April 2, 2023, Zhang Anmin fell from the 22nd floor of the KTV’s regular customer’s home and died, ending her brief but oppressed and bullied life. The circumstances of her death are highly suspicious, and there is no reliable evidence confirming the exact cause. According to her mother’s message posted on Douyin, Zhang Anmin’s death was likely not a suicide but murder. The punishment for the involved KTV was only a three-month suspension for “hosting minors in paid escort services” in June 2023. The reactionary government bears an undeniable responsibility for thoroughly investigating the cause of her death and the truth, and must also investigate her past experiences and persecution, punishing those directly responsible.
Regardless of the final cause of death, it is certain that Zhang Anmin was oppressed by the reactionary patriarchal system from birth until her death, which ended her young life. The brutal capitalist system and feudal patriarchal family structure of the reactionary regime are the real killers of Zhang Anmin! Her suffering vividly illustrates how private property society and reactionary patriarchy oppress women. In her family, her brutal father abandoned the entire family because his wife did not give birth to a son, directly preventing her from attending school; her mother, influenced by Confucian ideas, desperately sought her biological father after her birth, even hoping after her death that “society” would find him. In school, the profit-driven nature of the system indirectly caused her first dropout, and after being bullied, the school sided with patriarchal forces, forcing her to drop out again. In society, reactionary ideas based on pornographic content, used to maintain ruling class dominance, led to the bourgeoisie and upper petty bourgeoisie accepting the oppressive ideology of deriving pleasure from others’ suffering, spawning a porn industry that persecuted women, leading to her being sexually assaulted in a bar, raped in a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, and beaten in a KTV. Her misfortune is not only her own; it represents the suffering of millions of working people and working women! We can also see that reactionary efforts to superficially crack down on the porn industry not only failed to fundamentally eliminate her oppression but worsened her suffering. Only by overthrowing the reactionary bourgeoisie’s bureaucratic monopoly and rebuilding the socialist red flag on Chinese land can we eliminate Zhang Anmin’s misfortune and fundamentally change the oppressed and enslaved status of working people and women!
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that the reactionary rule of Zhongxiu has fostered countless rapists and molesters to oppress women recklessly without facing punishment. Instead, under the strong protests of the masses, Zhongxiu even seeks to overturn the verdicts for these beasts, which is truly shameless.