The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political...
After successive waves over the past year, China’s #MeToo movement against sexual assault...
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently introduced her friend Ma Hu with the first two parts of a three-part profile. Part one told the story of Ma Hu’s childhood, and how she dealt with her gender and sexual...
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently introduced her friend Ma Hu with the...
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently shared part one of a two-part...
At The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson talks to noted sexologist Li Yinhe about public and...
The Guardian’s Tania Branigan describes the efforts of some Chinese women to battle...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In an op-ed at The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus laments the gender inequality preventing Chinese...
At China Radio International, in an almost hourlong podcast, Leftover Women author Leta Hong...
The storm surrounding an adaptation of The Vagina Monologues by 17 female students at Beijing...
Rachel Lu reports in Foreign Policy that women from Beijing Foreign Studies University faced...
An article on Quartz looks at how the one-child policy, and accompanying gender imbalance, is...
According to accounts on social media from women’s rights activist Ye Haiyan and supporters, security police forcibly evicted Ye and her family from their rental home in Zhongshan, Guangdong province on Saturday. After a...
Ye Haiyan, a gender rights activist, was released from police detention but continued to face harassment. From Mimi Lau at the South China Morning Post: She was accused of assaulting three women who stormed into her apartment...
At The China Story, Elisa Nesossi talks to Zeng Jinyan about activism, human rights, filmmaking and blogging. Zeng highlights the underappreciated contributions and sacrifices of female activists and family members, as well as...
A recent report found that China is home to the highest number of female self-made entrepreneurs in the world. While this is certainly good news for those entrepreneurs, it does not give a complete picture of the complicated...
This week in Wuhan, a handful of female college students protested against invasive gynecological tests required for civil service jobs. From Jonathan Kaiman at The Guardian: A picture of the protest on Monday, which appeared in...
In an interview with Muhammad Cohen at Asia Times Online, Sheng Keyi discusses the English-language publication of her first novel, Northern Girls, based on her own experiences as a migrant worker in Shenzhen. Asia Times Online:...
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