Last week, the Chinese government announced that the country’s population had declined for the first time in decades, setting off a cacophony of alarm bells among those concerned about China’s demographic destiny. Chinese women,...
Last week, China’s National Health Commission admitted that the country is expecting negative population growth over the next few years. Declining birth rates across several provinces this year suggest that China’s population...
On Monday, several activists wore t-shirts emblazoned with the question “Where Is Peng Shuai?” to a match at Wimbledon in order to raise awareness about the Chinese tennis star. Peng has been absent from international media...
Life has not gotten easier for China’s LGBTQ+ communities. A looming demographic crisis has inspired calls to strengthen traditional family structures and produce more children, while rising nationalism and xenophobia have...
The third installation in CDT’s series of international Women’s Day protest art focuses on public banners and other artwork. Many of the banners come from college campuses, where some male students have invented a March 7...
A heavily censored version of the American sitcom “Friends” has been released across Chinese streaming platforms, eliciting derision and despair from millions of fans who fell in love with the original, un-cut version of the...
Alibaba has fired the employee who in August accused a manager of rape in apparent retaliation for her story going public. The victim, surnamed Zhou, alleged that her manager raped her after a boozy client dinner. Her accusation...
Following a recent national edict requiring Chinese TV to be kept free from “sissy boys,” a sneering term for men with styles unbound by traditional conceptions of masculinity, the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau...
Weibo users this week hurled ridicule at a call from the Chinese Ministry of Education’s to prevent the “feminization” of boys by encouraging schools to hire more male gym teachers. The Ministry of Education’s statement was a...
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 China Radio International, in an almost hourlong podcast, Leftover Women author Leta Hong...
In an interview with Shanghaiist, Leta Hong Fincher discusses the way China’s real estate...
A group of eight Chinese women facing gender discrimination in the job market have “named...
Rachel Lu reports in Foreign Policy that women from Beijing Foreign Studies University faced...
Despite a growing demand in cities, qualified male nurses can’t find jobs. Some are now turning to other careers. Many are attributing the scarcity to perceptions that nursing is a woman’s job though hospitals need...
Mar. 9, 2004 BEIJING (AP) — China will recruit women astronauts for future manned space missions as a result of pressure from a leading women’s organization, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday. A...
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