A Lesson on Chastity from the Ministry of Finance
Should the “chaste widows” of late imperial China, who committed suicide to preserve...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jun 24, 2016
Should the “chaste widows” of late imperial China, who committed suicide to preserve...
by Anne Henochowicz | May 26, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Anne Henochowicz | May 25, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 28, 2016
In their annual report “Attacks on the Press,” the Committee to Protect Journalists...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 9, 2015
At least ten women’s rights activists were detained on Friday and Saturday in Beijing,...
by Anne Henochowicz | Aug 27, 2014
戴避孕套不算强奸 (dài bìyùntào bú suàn qiángjiān): it’s not rape if you wear a condom A flimsy rebuttal to...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 3, 2014
From The Guardian’s Tania Branigan: At 85, Liang is a rare survivor of a custom stretching...
by Natalie Ornell | Jun 3, 2014
In an op-ed at The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus laments the gender inequality preventing Chinese...
by Cindy | Mar 14, 2014
Although women in China haven begun combating gender discrimination in the workplace, they...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 28, 2014
After dealing with explicit gender discrimination in the hiring process and workplace, women in...
by 不忘初心 | Jan 3, 2014
The storm surrounding an adaptation of The Vagina Monologues by 17 female students at Beijing...
by Natalie Ornell | Dec 30, 2013
A group of eight Chinese women facing gender discrimination in the job market have “named...
by Natalie Ornell | Nov 10, 2013
Rachel Lu reports in Foreign Policy that women from Beijing Foreign Studies University faced...
by Natalie Ornell | Jul 13, 2013
A report on The World discusses the Chinese tradition called “zuo yue zi”, when women enter a month of bed rest with their babies after giving birth. Ruth Morris reports that in China’s expanding confinement...
by Samuel Wade | May 27, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Dec 11, 2012
Clifford Coonan of The Independent catches up with Angelica Cheung, the editor of Vogue China, to discuss the challenges facing women in modern China and the secret behind the success of her magazine: Cheung believes the reason...
by Melissa M. Chan | Nov 4, 2012
While China was able to send its first woman to space, women have been experiencing a widening gender gap and facing more gender discrimination. CDT previously reported on the lack of women in China’s leadership. With the...
by Melissa M. Chan | Aug 21, 2012
While Miss China took the Miss World 2012 title, cows in Shanxi Province also had the opportunity to be crowned the winner in the Miss Dairy Cow Pageant, from The New York Daily News: Cows in China got the chance to strut their...