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Since the beginning, Chinese feminism has been closely intertwined with the Chinese Communist Party through the latter’s main representative, the All China Women’s Federation. What is at stake in such a movement, what are its limits and specificities since its origins? Based on the work of Chinese feminists and academics and the study of concrete activism on a local scale, I will look at the issue of “State feminism” in China and ask whether an independent feminism really exists, as it claims it does through various Chinese NGOs created since the Fourth UN conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, and in the context of “market socialism”.