Chinese authorities have arrested dozens of writers of Boys’ Love (BL), or danmei, a genre of online homoerotic fiction featuring male protagonists, and typically created by and for women. This latest crackdown appears driven by...
Xi Jinping’s loyalist leadership reshuffle at the end of the 20th Party Congress has not only awarded him a norm-defying third term as General Secretary of the CCP, but also reserved the highest echelons of power exclusively for...
The second in CDT’s series of International Women’s Day posters focuses on posters and artwork urging people to remember Xiaohuamei, the trafficked woman and mother of eight found shackled in a shed in Fengxian, Xuzhou, Jiangsu...
China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Wednesday that the...
China currently has a gender ratio of 117 men to 100 women, leading men in rural areas of China to...
In an interview with Shanghaiist, Leta Hong Fincher discusses the way China’s real estate...
The South China Morning Post reports on Shanghai singles’ efforts to ensure that no...
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
Following the news last week of an obstetrician’s suspended death sentence for child...
A group of eight Chinese women facing gender discrimination in the job market have “named...
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...
An article on Quartz looks at how the one-child policy, and accompanying gender imbalance, is...
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...
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,...
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