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e. China has a history of female infanticide which spans 2,000 years. When Christian missionaries arrived in China in the late sixteenth century, they witnessed newborns being thrown into rivers or onto rubbish piles. [1] [2] In the seventeenth century Matteo Ricci documented that the practice occurred in several of China's provinces and said ...
A series of high-profile domestic violence cases in China, including a killing carried out in broad daylight that was captured on video and circulated widely on social media, has sparked outrage ...
Peng Shuai in 2019 and Zhang Gaoli in 2013. Tennis star Peng Shuai disappeared after reportedly having accused retired Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. On 2 November 2021, Peng posted on Weibo that she had been involved in an extramarital affair with Zhang, who had pressed her to have sex with him three years earlier, and ...
Shock art is contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is a way to disturb "smug, complacent and hypocritical" people. [2] While the art form's proponents argue that it is "imbedded with social commentary" and critics dismiss it as "cultural pollution", it is an increasingly ...
China's official census report from 2000 shows that there were 117 boys for every 100 girls. The sex imbalance in some rural areas is even higher, at 130 boys to 100 girls, compared to a global average of 105 or 106 boys to 100 girls. [2] In 2021, the male-to-female ratio of China is recorded at 104.61 to 100. [3]
e. Like women in many other cultures, women in China have been historically oppressed. [4] For thousands of years, women in China lived under the patriarchal social order characterized by the Confucius teaching of "filial piety". [4] In modern China, the lives of women have changed significantly due to the late Qing dynasty reforms, the changes ...
Gender inequality in China. Zhuang woman in Guilin. In 2021, China ranked 48th out of 191 countries [1] on the United Nations Development Programme 's Gender Inequality Index (GII). Among the GII components, China's maternal mortality ratio was 32 out of 100,000 live births.
The #MeToo movement ( Chinese: #WoYeShi) emerged in China shortly after it originated in the United States. In mainland China, online MeToo posts were slowed by government censorship. [1] [2] On Weibo, #Metoo and #MetooinChina were both blocked for a period of time. [3] To avoid the censorship, Chinese women using the #MeToo hashtag on social ...