China Gender Imbalance ‘Most Serious’ in the World
China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Wednesday that the...
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Latest100 Vietnamese Brides Disappear from Hebei Village
China currently has a gender ratio of 117 men to 100 women, leading men in rural areas of China to...
Women Shut Out of Wealth Accumulation
In an interview with Shanghaiist, Leta Hong Fincher discusses the way China’s real estate...
Bitter Singles, Love, and Marriage Markets in China
The South China Morning Post reports on Shanghai singles’ efforts to ensure that no...
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Tom Carter
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
Sex-Selective Abortion Gang Broken Up
Following the news last week of an obstetrician’s suspended death sentence for child...
Eight Women Speak Out Against Gendered Job Ads
A group of eight Chinese women facing gender discrimination in the job market have “named...
A Place Where Capitalism and Hedonism Meet
The 11th Annual National Sex Culture Festival (第十一届全国广州性文化节) was held in Guangzhou from November...
China’s Gender Imbalance and the Real Estate Market
An article on Quartz looks at how the one-child policy, and accompanying gender imbalance, is...
China’s Hard Long Slog
At his Sinostand blog, Economic Observer’s Eric Fish argues that China faces bigger dangers than an economic crash: namely, severe water shortages and pollution, and an aging and gender-imbalanced population. I try to be...
What is Real Beauty in China?
Beauty products company Dove is taking their “Real Beauty” campaign to China. The campaign aims “to challenge beauty stereotypes and invite women to join a discussion about beauty.” It has been rolled out in the USA, Canada,...
Author Addresses China’s “Leftover Women”
The issue of so-called leftover women, or women who remain unmarried in their late 20s, is again in the media spotlight thanks to a bilingual book by Joy Chen titled, “Do Not Marry Before Age 30.” American Public...
Teaching “Leftover Women” to Find an Elite Husband
At Daily Life, Monica Tan tells of her experience alongside scores of China’s “leftover women” (剩女)—the ranks of successful women in China who choose to remain single amid societal pressure and a skewed sex...
An Interview with Zeng Jinyan
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...
The Children of China
Jiayang Fan, a rural-born Chinese girl who later left China for the United States, tells her life story as a girl in rural China under the one-child policy . From the New Yorker: In my kindergarten class of only children, we...
Rejecting the “Leftover Women” Label
As the marriage market in China grows more competitive due to a surplus of men, some Chinese single ladies are starting to challenge the label of “leftover women”, a term used to describe unmarried women in their...
China’s Biggest Problem? Too Many Men
Rob Brooks, professor of evolution at New South Wales University in Australia, looks to the surplus of men over women in China as a potential threat to social stability. From CNN: A long history of son preference, particularly...
Fallout From The One-Child Policy
As China considers loosening its one-child policy and internal encouragement of reform has been reported, the GlobalPost has launched a series surveying “the world’s worst ever man-made gender gap”. The first...
