[2] In an interview with Yazhou Zhoukan, Yue discussed much of her personal life, noting that she became interested in politics in middle school after reading Liu Yu's Details of Democracy.

During her senior year she participated in a series of protests against the university's handling of sexual assault allegations and failure to address predatory behaviour within the faculty and staff.

[4] She alleges that on 20 April 2018 a school advisor came unannounced to her dorm room with Yue's mother, who had been presented a distorted form of the events in order to persuade her daughter to rescind her request.

[13] The dispute led to numerous student activists, Yue among them, travelling to Huizhou to participate in protests against Jasic and the Chinese government's policies on labour rights.

[1][19] On 21 January 2019, the Jasic Workers Solidarity Group stated on their website that Yue and four other of its members had been forced by Guangdong police to record confessions admitting to "conducting illegal acts" and "being brainwashed by radical organizations".

The National Security Department of the People's Republic of China then interviewed other members of the Jasic Workers Solidarity Group and asked them to watch the confession videos.

Chomsky wrote in a message to the Financial Times: "To continue to participate in ... officially sponsored Marxism-related events means we would stay complicit in the Chinese government's game.