As the #MeToo movement has swept America, it has also made waves in greater China. On the mainland, the most widely publicized incident involved Luo Xixi’s allegation in a January 2018 Weibo post that her professor at Beihang University, Chen Xiaowu, sexually harassed her over a decade ago. The (...)
A chronicle of important milestones in the CSO and academic movement against domestic violence in China. This listing highlights the role of CSOs and their foreign supporters and omits some important initiatives by informal campaigns and by groups not associated with the CSO or university milieu. Nevertheless it is a valuable resource for understanding the development of an effective movement against domestic violence in China. This article was prepared by one of the leading legal firms (...)
The #metoo protest against sexual harassment is spreading across Chinese universities. A petition of alumni from more than 60 universities is rapidly gathering signatures. The problem is well known: One 2016 study estimated that 70% of students have experienced or observed sexual assault. But (...)
New legislation and the growth of women’s rights groups is only very slowly impacting on widespread gender-based violence. Many officials still don’t take women’s complaints seriously, or prioritise mediation and family harmony before protection of women and children.
A Lian was held captive in a (...)
Editor’s Note
For this year’s International Women’s Day, we interviewed Feng Yuan, a well-known feminist activist who has been promoting gender equality since the eighties. Feng Yuan is the co-founder of Equality (Beijing), an NGO for women’s rights and gender equality. She has jointly facilitated several women’s NGO initiatives, such as the Media Monitor Network for Women (1996-), the Gender and (...)
Pity China’s ‘bare branches’: unmarried men stuck between tradition and capitalism
Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, is a highlight in Chinese society. But for many young people, the joy of vacation and family reunion is mixed with questions from parents and relatives about their (...)
From the Late Qing Dynasty to the Early Republican Period: The Origins of China’s Feminist Movements
The Chinese have traditionally used the yin-yang philosophy to explain the ‘natural’ phenomena of gender relations, conveniently creating a power relation dominated by the yang, or males. Women (...)
Why This Topic Matters?
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 Tingting (...)
(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, (...)
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