China's gender imbalance has birthed a shadow industry of bride-trafficking, where poor women from several Asian countries, ...

In recent years, marriage brokers have become increasingly active in pairing Bangladeshi women with Chinese men. A search for the term “Bangladeshi girls” (孟加拉女孩) on Chinese social media and ...

China has essentially closed the gender gap in schooling: girls’ primary enrolment has long hovered above 99.9%, secondary ...

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

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 ...

Young women look at posts showing personal information of unmarried people at the Matchmaking Corner in a park in Shenzhen city, Guangdong province, China, Oct. 6, 2025. Lihua*, sat at the wooden ...

Head-shaving ritual not only marks new life chapter but also symbolises lifelong commitment to chosen partners.

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, the People’s Republic of China issued its first law. It wasn’t the Constitution, nor was it the Civil Code — it was the Marriage Law. This unique level of importance reflected ...

The conference was billed as a celebration of China’s achievements in supporting women. But the government has mostly wiped out independent advocacy groups. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing China ...

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 ...