Growing numbers of Chinese women are challenging a longstanding tradition that denies them village membership, and the lucrative payouts that go with it. By Vivian Wang Vivian Wang traveled to ...

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China is ramping up efforts to counter its plummeting birth rate, with measures ranging from cash incentives to controversial local campaigns urging women to have children. Last year marked the ...

MS MAO WAS making lunch one day at her home in the eastern city of Wuxi when she got the phone call. Rather than the courier’s delivery update she was expecting, she found herself subject to an ...

Recent data from China shows a decline in fertility rates in the countryside as well as in the cities. This complicates hopes that rural women could alleviate the declining birthrate. Demographic ...

The return of ethnic minority women to remote rural areas to explore entrepreneurial opportunities has positively driven the transformation and development of the rural economy in China. These women ...

After decades of exclusion and legal ambiguity, a new national law in China bars villages from stripping women of membership and related land rights because they married and moved away. 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 ...

In the Northwest Chinese dialect, it means capable, daring, resilient, and defiant of fate. In the golden autumn, the "zan ...