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...
Unofficial data published by China’s Ministry of Public Security indicated a 15% decline in new birth registrations in 2020. The drop off is a reflection of a host of factors: the coronavirus epidemic, legacies of the...
Should the “chaste widows” of late imperial China, who committed suicide to preserve...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In their annual report “Attacks on the Press,” the Committee to Protect Journalists...
At least ten women’s rights activists were detained on Friday and Saturday in Beijing,...
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...
From The Guardian’s Tania Branigan: At 85, Liang is a rare survivor of a custom stretching...
In an op-ed at The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus laments the gender inequality preventing Chinese...
Although women in China haven begun combating gender discrimination in the workplace, they...
After dealing with explicit gender discrimination in the hiring process and workplace, women in...
The storm surrounding an adaptation of The Vagina Monologues by 17 female students at Beijing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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