In 2014, Wang Xiao was diagnosed with uremia and warned she might not survive a year without a kidney transplant. With no ...

In the 1950s, China’s fledgling government sought to upend centuries-old marriage practices and promote women’s rights. But ...

A Chinese woman with uremia married a cancer patient for his kidney but their survival pact unexpectedly turned into love, ...

China’s marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 million the previous year. This decline has prompted Chen Songxi, a Chinese ...

Marriage rates in China continued to plummet last year, deepening the country’s demographic crisis and highlighting the public’s changing attitudes towards marriage, childbirth, family planning, and ...

On Feb. 1, 2025, China’s Supreme People’s Court officially adopted a series of new interpretations of the country’s marriage and family laws. Buried in Article 8 of the document was a line that could ...

The ever-growing list of government pro-natalist initiatives at local and national levels has so far failed to slow China’s demographic changes. For many men and women, marriage and child bearing ...

In 2022, a 36-year old woman went viral on China’s Weibo after rejecting marriage and declaring that “women are no longer living in the age of depending on men in marriage.” The post, resonating with ...

HONG KONG — Several Chinese trade unions have issued notices to companies to stop asking female job seekers about their marital and childbearing status, as women concerned about discrimination at work ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

An all-female repair business is challenging gender norms in China and catering to a growing population of single women seeking safety and comfort at home. We spoke to Ray Hou, who quit her office job ...

In a country where homosexuality was illegal until just 16 years ago and classed as a mental illness until 2001, advocates for gay rights in China complain that attitudes toward their community are ...