China Gender imbalance and the marriage squeeze in China November 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: DSCF9536 by Kahirado/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Quanbao Jiang. Since the 1980s, China has experienced an abnormally high sex ratio at birth…
China Surplus men and the institution of marriage in China November 19, 2015 0 Written by Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen. A recent policy recommendation by economist Xie Zuoshi advocating “wife sharing” as a solution to a 30-million surplus…
China Women’s Rights Advocacy in China: Some Cautious Optimism? November 10, 2015 0 Written by Cara Wallis. In late September of this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech at the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and…
China Sex in China: History, Debates and Policy Implications November 9, 2015 0 Written by Elaine Jeffreys and Haiqing Yu. A standard explanation for the rise of pre-marital sexuality and homosexuality in China is that young people have been…
China Masculinities and Talking Politics in China November 4, 2015 0 Written by Lake Lui. 2014 was a fateful year for Hong Kong people—like me—who do research in China. The vibrant discussion of Hong Kong’s political reform,…
China Gender inequalities at work in urban China November 2, 2015 0 Written by Jieyu Liu. The Chinese Communist Party firmly believed that the way to achieve national women’s emancipation was to ensure women did full-time paid work…
