Will your relatives be pressuring you about getting married today? Be thankful you don’t live in China. According to a piece on the Ms. Magazine blog: In China, the sexist term “leftover woman,” sheng ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Xu Jiajie has gone on countless blind dates and to numerous match-making events over the past five years in search of a husband. At 31, the baby-faced office worker from Shanghai ...
Kelly McEvers talks to sociologist Leta Hong Fincher about her new book, Leftover Women. It's about the resurgence of social and economic... 'Leftover Women' Blamed For China's Surplus Of Unmarried ...
Roseann Lake’s new book, Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower, is a treasure trove of insights about what it means to be a single woman in China today. Here is a sampling ...
SHANGHAI For the past two years, Karen Xie, 32, who earns a good salary at a media firm, has met on average one marriage candidate a month. They’ve all been Mr. Wrong. In theory, women such as Xie ...
Chizuko Ueno, a 75-year-old Japanese sociologist, has become a surprising superstar in China. Even as the government ...
Beauty products company Dove is taking their “Real Beauty” campaign to China. The campaign aims “to challenge beauty stereotypes and invite women to join a discussion about beauty.” It has been rolled ...