STORY: 29-year-old Xie Tong balances a career in finance with her passion for bodybuilding. She says lifting has liberated her. "I used to work out to conform to other people's aesthetics, to become ...

Livestreams that ignore the ban are shut down, and offenders can be charged for disseminating obscene material. To bypass this rule, online lingerie businesses are hiring men to do the modeling ...

28-year-old Joy Yu’s parents each had three siblings. As they were growing up in the 1970s, the Chinese government started to limit the number of babies born. Government statistics show on average a ...

Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life ...

When the Women's China Open first teed off in 2006, the occasion was quietly significant. At the time, women's golf in the Middle Kingdom was still taking fledgling steps in the global game. The ...

“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 ...

On gender roles. inequality and sex in China in the 1970s. Text from Revolt Against Plenty where it formed part of the "China 4" page. Chinese women have long been subjugated to the authority of men ...

In a warning issued on Sunday, the Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh urged its citizens to steer clear of illegal cross-border marriages and deceptive online matchmaking schemes. The statement, widely ...

Jo Farrell, portrait of Zhang Yun Ying, age 77 (2005) (all photographs courtesy the artist) As the last generation of Chinese women with bound feet ages into their final decades, Jo Farrell set out to ...

China will be planning an official bid to host the 2031 Women’s World Cup. The Chinese Football Association and Chinese sports, education and finance ministies put together the strategy. If selected, ...

CHINESE WOMEN are angry about many things and are increasingly daring to express their anger. Two of the most widely shared stories on Chinese social media in 2022 involved them. One was about a woman ...