The Role of Family Planning in China’s Demographic Transition
China’s decades-long fertility control policies have led to impact on rapid population aging and sharp decline in labour supply, writes Jane Du.
2603, 2024
1210, 2023
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
Margaret Hillenbrand argues that a vast underclass of Chinese workers exist in “zombie citizenship,” a state of dehumanizing exile from the law and its safeguards.
1410, 2022
Why is China banning Boys’ Love (BL) and why should we care?
Dr Chi Zhang and Dr Ming Zhang argue that China’s banning of ‘Boys’ Love’ and its derivative works will have no positive consequences on women’s willingness to have children.
1602, 2022
China Must Pay More Attention to the Welfare of Rural Women
Ran Yan writes that in the ‘Three-child era’, China needs to pay more attention to the protection of rural mothers’ rights and interests.
1402, 2022
China’s Conservative Turn on Gender Roles
SOAS alumna Ludovica Meacci comments on Xi Jinping’s renewed push to reinforce conservative gender norms as a means to serve two mutually reinforcing objectives of the CCP.
2601, 2022
TV Drama Discourse on Stay-at-home Fathers in China
Fei Huang uses TV drama ‘Super Dad & Super Kids’ to examine how Stay-at-home fathers are represented in a bid to provide a new perspective to academic debates about the cultural production of gender difference and hierarchy in China.