Speaking at the Herstory conference this March as part of Chengdu’s Women’s Month, prominent women’s rights activist Xiao Meili shared the story of her 2,000km protest walk from Beijing to Guangzhou to raise...
On Chinese college campuses, International Women’s Day is preceded by “Girl’s Day,” a recent invention that often degrades the students it purports to honor. On March 7, male students hang banners around campus, many of which...
In its 31st annual global report, Human Rights Watch wrote of China, “This has been the darkest period for human rights in China since the 1989 massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square democracy movement.” The...
A Hangzhou court has found a journalist guilty of defamation for accusing a senior colleague of sexually assaulting her in 2009, dealing the nation’s #MeToo movement a courtroom defeat. In 2018, He Qian alleged that Deng Fei...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
After successive waves over the past year, China’s #MeToo movement against sexual assault...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
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...
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