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Young women go through etiquette training at a vocational school in Beijing in 2007, ahead of the 2008 Olympics. Photo: Reuters
Women and gender

Being Chinese | Why Chinese women like me are done being quiet and ‘appropriate’

Chinese women are praised for gentleness. Our tone must please; our anger must be graceful. But a new generation is speaking out.

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Women and gender

‘New women but no new men’: feminist evolution unfinished in China, scholar says

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Art

The artist who wore nothing but light bulbs to scandalise communist Poland

Women and gender

China pledges US$110 million for women’s empowerment at Beijing global summit

President Xi Jinping highlights shared global duty as he pledges US$10 million for UN Women and US$100 million for China-led fund.

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President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan pose with national leaders and other delegates ahead of the opening ceremony for the Global Women’s Summit, in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Pool via Reuters
Chinese traditional art

Video | Hong Kong’s female lion dancers

The young women in Kwok’s Girls have been challenging traditional gender norms in Hong Kong’s male-dominated lion dance scene

Women and gender

Being Chinese | How far Chinese women have come since my grandmother’s time

I have more equal status than my grandmother did in the pre-communist era. But young women are still pushing back against discrimination.

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Women and gender

Opinion | China’s gender conversations must go offline to empower everyone

Much of China’s gender debate happens on online platforms that simply don’t offer the space and nuance needed for such a complex issue.

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Online activism has its place but a lack of in-person discussion risks deepening the divide on gender. Photo: Shutterstock
Women and gender

Opinion | Chiung Yao’s celebration of women’s freedom goes deeper than her paeans to love

As Chinese women embrace feminism, the writer’s final celebration of her independence perhaps resonates more deeply than her love stories.

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Trending in China

China KOL mimics famous athlete in sexy video, igniting objectification debate

‘No matter how hard she tries to look like Wu Yanni, she cannot run as fast as her,’ says a commenter.

China economy

Video | Women are leading China’s growing wine industry

How some of the best wines in China are being made by women
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China society

Opinion | Why China’s women are talking back like never before

A resurgence of content by women for women is a sign that more Chinese females are ready to engage with issues related to their rights.

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Stand-up comedian Qiqi (centre) chats with fellow comedians Ailun (right) and Yang Mei (second right) and fans after a performance at a shopping mall in Beijing in November 2020. Photo: AFP
Families in China

Video | Meet one of China’s ‘full-time dads’

China society

Being Chinese | Put a ring on it? Chinese women don’t need marriage any more

Women in China once believed marriage to be a necessary passage in life. Now they know they can choose to follow their desires.

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Viral stories

Feminist Japan TV anchor fired for saying men’s body odour ‘hard to endure’

A feminist news anchor in Japan has been fired over comments she made about the “hard to endure” nature of men’s body odour that has prompted a fierce debate about the patriarchal nature of Japanese society.

A feminist news anchor in Japan has been fired over comments she made about the “hard to endure” nature of men’s body odour. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/X.com@funifuniyuri
Jianbing

Prominent Chinese activists sentenced to up to 5 years on subversion charges

#MeToo and labour rights campaigners Sophia Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing, had been detained since 2021.

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Huang Xueqin, a prominent feminsit journalist based in Guangzhou. Photo: SCMP Pictures
China's population

Video | Young feminist defies Chinese government’s childbearing drive

Women and gender

From gyms to hostels, women in China are creating female-friendly spaces

The phenomenon is in stark contrast to China’s official clubs and elite politics, where female participation is minimal, if not absent.

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China society

Opinion | Cracking down on marriage gifts does nothing for Chinese women’s rights

If Beijing really wants encourage marriage, rather than putting pressure on women and their family to stop this admittedly problematic custom, it should address the gender inequalities that make marriage unattractive to women.

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China’s gender imbalance, a legacy of its one-child policy, has encouraged families with daughters to demand an increasingly high caili, or betrothal gift, from their prospective in-laws. Photo: Shutterstock
China’s Communist Party

China’s top women’s affairs official vows to promote marriage and family

Shen Yiqin, state councillor and president of the All-China Women’s Federation, says women must contribute to the ‘great cause of national rejuvenation’.

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American cinema

Hong Kong feminist forum unpacks Barbie movie’s messaging about inclusion

Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film based on the Mattel dolls and starring Margot Robbie as Barbie has sparked conversations about feminism and patriarchy, and Hongkongers can join in at an upcoming event.

Women and gender

Letters | Why Chinese men needn’t be put off by Barbie and feminism

Readers discuss the message of the new movie, Japanese students’ struggle with English and the behaviour of a British band in Malaysia.

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A trailer for the movie “Barbie” is shown on a giant screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing on July 20. Photo: AFP
Women and gender

Could Barbie be the answer to promoting women’s rights in China?

Hollywood’s latest blockbuster has become the unlikely heroine in fighting China’s gender disparity.

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Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie star in the Greta Gerwig-directed film Barbie, which is seeing a wave of feminist discussion sweep China. Photo: Warner Bros/TNS
US-China relations

How Yellen’s women’s power lunch exposed China’s divide over women’s rights

US treasury secretary held several meetings on recent Beijing visit but only an all-women lunch drew ire from nationalists on social media.

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China's population

Video | No longer ‘leftover’: China’s women take charge

Women and gender

Hong Kong-based femtech founder fights ‘period poverty’ across Asia

Olivia Cotes-James founded Luüna Naturals, one of Hong Kong’s first, and biggest, femtech companies, which has worked with offices and schools to dispense free menstrual products to over 300,000 users.

Participants browse through products at a workshop held by Luüna Naturals in Hong Kong on February 27, 2020. Photo: AFP
Reproductive health

Hong Kong femtech founders fight taboos, stigma, investor disinterest

A group of local entrepreneurs is pushing through institutional barriers, but Hong Kong lags behind Singapore in nurturing an area that will be worth US$68.9 billion in 2027, analysts say.

Sanitary pads invented by WomenX can test for cervical cancer. Photo: Handout
Lunar

Women Of Our Time 2023

Lunar was at the Women Of Our Time conference this week, where a diverse group of speakers discussed issues related to women in finance, tech and entrepreneurship.

Tattoos

Video | ‘1,000 Girls’ documents women’s motivations for getting tattooed

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