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The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women organized by the United Nations and held in Beijing was the first and only international event of its kind in China. It was a landmark event, during which the Chinese government gave a promise to address gender equality and (...)
A MONTH-LONG international outcry was apparently influential in winning release for the five detained feminist activists in China — Li Tingting, Wei Tingting, Wang Man, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan (pictured above) — held since International Women’s Day on charges of “picking quarrels and creating (...)
In response to An Urgent Calling for Global Action: Protest in Front of Chinese Embassies for Detained Chinese Feminists, we are going to launch a protest at the Mongkok pedestrian zone to demand the immediate release of the Chinese feminists.
On 21 March in Hong Kong, we launched a protest to (...)
Seriously Ill Women’s Rights Activist Denied Medical Treatment by Police; Families and Friends Worry About a Second “Cao Shunli Incident”
The detention of five feminist activists ahead of International Women’s Day has captured the attention of both domestic and international feminist communities. (...)
Translation of a statement by the partner of “Da Tu” (Giant Rabbit), one of the feminists detained on March 7, focusing on mutual aid between feminists and workers, with solidarity photos workers have posted online. Followed by translation of a petition by students at Da Tu’s alma mater, Sun (...)
Signature campaign initiated by The Association for the Advancement of Feminism (website: www.aaf.org.hk).
(8th March 2015 ) Women and sexuality groups in Hong Kong express grave concern with the recent arrests by the Beijing authorities of five prominent female activists, including Li (...)
(Reuters) - China has detained at least two feminist activists, a lawyer said, as the country escalates a crackdown on dissent ahead of planned rallies this weekend to mark International Women’s Day.
Li Tingting, who goes by the pseudonym Li Maizi, a young women’s rights campaigner who is best (...)
Marriage and divorce, land and property, at work and at home – laws and customs discriminate against women and leave them at a glaring economic disadvantage.
In Dadun village, in China’s southern Hainan province, some residents are more equal than others: the men.
When inhabitants were told to (...)
Leta Hong Fincher has written a shocking account of the way women are treated in the People’s Republic.
Leftover Women should carry a health warning: this book will severely raise your blood pressure. Leta Hong Fincher’s subject – researched through statistical analysis, sociological surveys and (...)
The spectacular Chinese property boom is almost entirely benefiting men, while government-backed campaigns stigmatise unmarried women over 27 as ’leftover’.
Shang Wen, a 32-year-old single mother of a three-year-old boy, is a rarity in China, largely because her parents helped her buy her own (...)
Kim Lee’s victory over celebrity husband Li Yang is in stark contrast to the treatment handed out to many Chinese women.
On Sunday morning, braving the freezing weather, I joined a dozen activists outside Beijing’s Chaoyang district court for Kim Lee’s final divorce hearing . Lee, an American (...)
BEIJING — They call themselves the Volunteers — a growing band of young Chinese who stage playful, but pointed, public protests for greater rights for women.
They dance and sing on the street wearing oversize “underpants” to assail invasive gynecological examinations for female civil servants, (...)
Review: Factory Girls. From Village to City in a Changing China, By Leslie T. Chang, Spiegel and Grau 2008, Random House paperback edition 2009, 448 pages, $16.
FACTORY GIRLS SHOWS the reader what it’s like to live inside the largest human migration in history. It feels, apparently, pretty (...)
China’s gender imbalance, the result of the one-child policy implemented in 1979, is creating a social time bomb that may threaten the already feeble status of women, who are already losing ground. While attention is focused on disturbing problems like social instability and rising crime (...)
WHEN CHINA ADOPTED the “open door” policy in 1978, south China, especially the Pearl River Delta area, was the first industrial area created to attract foreign investment, particularly from Hong Kong. In the late 1990s, China accelerated this policy, opening consumer markets to foreign (...)
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I. Abstract II. The CCP’s changes in social policy in the reform era III. Working conditions in the EPZs IV. Some special features of rural migrant workers V. The regime of spatial and social apartheid VI. The beginnings of resistance VII. Four cases studies VIII. The gender (...)
“A blossom rose, Before it could enjoy the warmth of the sun, Before it could feel the touch of a breeze, Was mercilessly broken off from its branch, Got mixed with mud in the ground, shattered. Its sweet scent was still in the air, Its color still red. Maybe some affectionate young man, Once (...)
In a country where a large number of women are kidnapped for sale; female infanticide is common; illiteracy, unemployment and school dropout rates among women are persistently much higher than for men; the number of women in higher education, professional jobs and positions of power is only a (...)
The changes in a historical epoch may always be inferred from the comparative freedom of women in one part of it or another, for in an improvement in the relations between women and men, between the weak and the strong, we see most clearly the victory of human nature over the nature of the (...)
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