China’s Female Students Want to Abolish Girls’ Day. As the world celebrated International Women’s Day on Monday, China’s female students were leading a campaign to abolish the problematic day that precedes it.
Joanne, a 21-year-old studying at an elite university in Beijing, is sick and tired of Girls’ Day, an unofficial holiday that in China is observed every year on March 7. Girls’ Day is said to have started at Shandong University in the 1990s after female students there objected to being referred to as funü, or women, a term they thought made them sound old. Pretty Lady Cadres. In early February, at the beginning of the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 virus in China, Wang Fang, a local Communist Party secretary, was working around the clock.
As an official responsible for 19,000 residents of a neighborhood in the city of Deyang in Sichuan province, Wang spent her days answering questions from concerned citizens via WeChat and figuring out who needed to quarantine. In a post she published on the Sichuan Provincial Women’s Federation’s official WeChat account, Wang outlined a tightly scheduled 14-hour day. She said the responsibilities she shouldered as a female Party member at the local level outweighed the fears and worries of motherhood. Across the country, the COVID outbreak that began spreading in January brought a spotlight to women like Wang. Chinese state media responded accordingly: eulogizing the bravery of female officials and healthcare workers. The pandemic overwhelmed Wuhan’s government. Why Some Chinese Women Are Embracing a ‘No Kids, No Ring’ Lifestyle.
“No kids, no ring, keep living serene.”
These seven words have become a catchphrase in recent months, a call for women to skip the grief of matrimony and enjoy the security of singledom. It’s a call that has only intensified after a recent spate of reports detailing shocking incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other attacks on women. The slogan’s popularity is about more than just fears of gendered violence, however. Chinese Song Amplifies Awareness of Violence Against Women. Get-Picked-Up Artist for Women Shut Down Over ‘Immoral’ Teachings. A China-registered relationship consultancy has had its business license revoked for promoting an “immoral” curriculum to its customers, in what is believed to be one of the first instances of a women-run pick-up artist-style company facing repercussions from Chinese authorities over its controversial teachings.
Market supervision authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Xuzhou told Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper that the company, named after Ling Tongtong — the self-described lücha biao jiaomu, or “godmother of green tea bitches,” a slang term for women whose outward innocence belies their true cunning — had been ordered to rectify its untoward practices several times. As of last week, the company’s social media accounts on microblogging platform Weibo and messaging app WeChat had been removed. Ling Tongtong — likely not the owner’s real name — and her agency claim to be experts in helping women get whatever they desire out of their romantic relationships.
The Face of China’s #MeToo Movement Enters the Fray. In the summer of 2014, Zhou Xiaoxuan, then a 21-year-old living in Beijing, filed a report with the local police.
She described what had happened the previous day when she had delivered a basket of fruit to one of China’s most prominent news anchors, Zhu Jun, in his dressing room. Zhou told the police that after she entered the room, the anchor had kissed her and groped her against her will. Two days later, the police contacted Zhou’s parents and persuaded them not to pursue action against Zhu and to not speak about the incident publicly. Zhou told friends what had happened to her, but the encounter—as do so many like it—remained a private matter, something for Zhou to contend with on her own.
Four year later, the series of public sexual assault revelations that became the #MeToo movement in the U.S. in 2017 changed Zhou’s story. Zhou found herself catapulted into national prominence. Zhou found herself catapulted into national prominence. Why Progress Doesn’t Guarantee the End of Patriarchy. As a sociologist who mostly conducts quantitative research, I never considered myself a candidate for viral fame.
So I was caught off guard when, in late June, a screenshot of a statistical analysis I wrote titled “The Evolution, Origins, and Heterogeneity of Chinese Gender Perceptions” suddenly took off on Chinese social media. The paper, an examination of changing gender role attitudes in Chinese society, draws on data from the 2000 and 2010 Chinese Women’s Social Status surveys.
I found that the number of respondents who said they agreed with the statement, “A man’s place is in society, while a woman’s is in the home,” had risen over that period, from 47.5% in 2000 to almost 58% in 2010. Likewise, the number of people who agreed that women “are better off marrying rich than working hard” rose from 33.7% to over 44%. Her Husband Abused Her. But Getting a Divorce Was an Ordeal. Ms.
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The Ballad of Mùlán. Procursus This text of the Ballad of Mùlán is about as close as we come to a definitive edition of the famous story of the woman warrior Mùlán (木兰 “Magnolia”) who saves China.
Her historical reality is unknown, and some evidence suggests that if she existed at all she may not have been Chinese, but rather the heroine of a story borrowed from tribal groups to the north. Women Rule, Men Drool in China’s Hottest New Show. It’s a well-worn trope of film and fiction: The hero rescues the damsel in distress, and they fall madly in love.
But what happens next? “You look so good,” the beauty, Chen Qianqian, says as she sizes up the hero with a long, lascivious look, eyeing him from head to toe. She turns to her attendants and says in a commanding tone: “Bathe him and send him to my chambers tonight.” This scene from the wildly popular period drama “The Romance of Tiger and Rose” is set in the fictional city of Huayuan, where women rule.
The show has blown up on Chinese social media thanks to its convention-defying world in which men’s and women’s roles are reversed — at least partially. China Seethes Over Teenager’s Claims of Rape by Foster Father. Harrowing allegations of a successful businessman raping his teenage foster daughter for three years are attracting widespread attention in China. In China, Kids Of Unwed Mothers May Be Barred From Public Health Care, Education : NPR.
Women in World History. Guiding Question For practical teaching reasons, World History classes often assign simple dates of independence to the dozens of African nation-states that emerged in the mid-twentieth century. In reality their decolonial periods spanned decades. As in any political struggle, disparate groups formed pragmatic local and trans-regional alliances to achieve independence, even as they disagreed about priorities and ultimate goals. In the post-colonial period, diverse activists in countries across the continent continued to seek solutions to problems that remained after (or were caused by) the creation of independent nation-states. How have movements for women’s rights in Kenya and Tanzania exemplified pragmatic alliances and intra-movement disagreements about priorities? References In her interview, Professor decker mentioned the Aga Khan (link is external) and his relationship to education in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania). Learn More. NBA China Ad Featuring Male Singer Reignites Masculinity Debate.
A 20-year-old boy band member is at the center of yet another debate on masculinity after NBA China released a Lunar New Year promotional video featuring the pop idol. Cai Xukun, a singer with the group Nine Percent, has been called effeminate and not masculine enough by netizens arguing that his appearance and personality aren’t fit to be associated with a professional sports league. According to NBA China, Cai is the first Chinese star to ever be featured in an NBA promotional video celebrating the Lunar New Year holiday, or the Spring Festival. The 30-second clip, released Friday, also features big-name players Giannis Antetokounmpo, Klay Thompson, and Damian Lillard.
The pop singer is the latest celebrity targeted for what many see as a deviation from traditional gender norms. Dating website for sugar daddies and ‘sweethearts’ gains popularity in China. Seeking Arrangement, an American dating website dedicated to connecting sugar daddies and younger women, is under investigation by Shanghai police after a surge in popularity in China. At the time of writing, on China’s iOS App Store, Seeking Arrangement has surpassed Tencent’s WeChat and QQ to become the most downloaded social networking app. Among all free apps, it now ranks second, only behind the viral short-video sharing app Douyin (抖音).
Seeking Arrangement was founded in 2006 by American entrepreneur Brandon Wade, who once famously said that “love is a concept invented by poor people.” What Is the Significance of China’s #MeToo Movement?