A Lesson on Chastity from the Ministry of Finance
Should the “chaste widows” of late imperial China, who committed suicide to preserve...
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LatestWord of the Week: Straight Man Cancer
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Minitrue: Delete Op-Ed on Tsai Ing-wen
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Males Preferred: Chinese Women in Journalism
In their annual report “Attacks on the Press,” the Committee to Protect Journalists...
Progress and Setbacks for Women’s Rights Activists
At least ten women’s rights activists were detained on Friday and Saturday in Beijing,...
It’s Not Rape If You Wear a Condom
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...
No Regrets For Choice of Independence Over Marriage
From The Guardian’s Tania Branigan: At 85, Liang is a rare survivor of a custom stretching...
A Political Ceiling That’s Hard To Shatter
In an op-ed at The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus laments the gender inequality preventing Chinese...
Why Do Men Dominate Chinese Politics?
Although women in China haven begun combating gender discrimination in the workplace, they...
Women Begin to Confront Blatant Workplace Bias
After dealing with explicit gender discrimination in the hiring process and workplace, women in...
Feminism: Celebrating the V-Word
The storm surrounding an adaptation of The Vagina Monologues by 17 female students at Beijing...
Eight Women Speak Out Against Gendered Job Ads
A group of eight Chinese women facing gender discrimination in the job market have “named...
Women Insulted Online For Vagina Monologues Ads
Rachel Lu reports in Foreign Policy that women from Beijing Foreign Studies University faced...
One Month Cocoons Draw New Moms
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...
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...
Vogue China Empowers Women Beyond Fashion
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...
In China, Women Lag Behind Politically
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...
MOOve Over Miss World
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...
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