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With the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in China, a nationalist discourse emerged across leading social networks, portraying female medical personnel as self-sacrificing heroines. Female activists not only questioned this media coverage and successfully launched online fundraising campaigns to support female doctors and nurses, but also raised attention to patriarchal structures within Chinese society. However, most feminists' attempts to decentre nationalist discourse were either censored by algorithmic forms of social control or ignored by mainstream media. Hence, intercultural studiesinvestigating China's global entanglement need to consider these restrictions on communicative possibilities and forms of censored resistance, to ensure nationalist discourse does not overshadow the transnational struggle that women face against patriarchal oppression, spurred by the pandemic.