The New York Times

In Rural China, ‘Sisterhoods’ Demand Justice, and Cash

Growing numbers of Chinese women are challenging a longstanding tradition that denies them village membership, and the lucrative payouts that go with it. By Vivian Wang Vivian Wang traveled to ...
Newsweek

China Pressures Women To Help Avert Population Crisis

China is ramping up efforts to counter its plummeting birth rate, with measures ranging from cash incentives to controversial local campaigns urging women to have children. Last year marked the ...
CNN

China’s one-child policy hangover: Scarred women dismiss Beijing’s pro-birth agenda

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Hong Kong CNN — “What are your parents’ names ...
Human Rights Watch

Chinese Women from the Countryside: Views on Marriage

Recent data from China shows a decline in fertility rates in the countryside as well as in the cities. This complicates hopes that rural women could alleviate the declining birthrate. Demographic ...
East Asia Forum

Women lead China’s countryside comeback

The return of ethnic minority women to remote rural areas to explore entrepreneurial opportunities has positively driven the transformation and development of the rural economy in China. These women ...
The Hill

Xi Jinping wants to make China patriarchal again, but women are fighting back

Hundreds of millions of people across China are reuniting with their families to celebrate the Lunar New Year — but for some, the festive season is also filled with violence. In recent years, facing a ...
Human Rights Watch

Xi vs. She: China’s government wants women to return to domesticity, but it’s already too late

“Every woman my age in China has a story to tell,” our friend Eunice Ng says. When she was 9, Eunice’s mother went away for what her family said was “medical treatment.” She didn’t think much of it at ...
Sixth Tone

China Enacts Landmark Law to Safeguard Rural Women’s Land Rights

After decades of exclusion and legal ambiguity, a new national law in China bars villages from stripping women of membership and related land rights because they married and moved away. The ...
The Economist

China’s government is badgering women to have babies

MS MAO WAS making lunch one day at her home in the eastern city of Wuxi when she got the phone call. Rather than the courier’s delivery update she was expecting, she found herself subject to an ...
Naija Gist - Latest

The Chinese village with the world’s longest-haired women

This village is not just a regular place; it has been recognised by the Guinness World Records as the village with the world’s longest-haired women. People from all over the world visit this village ...
NPR

U.K. Labour Party candidate, born in China, writes about women's private evolutions

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author and U.K. Labour Party candidate Yuan Yang about what women face in her former home country of China. Sponsor Message STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: In this summer's U.K.