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Childbirth in China. Childbirth in China is influenced by traditional Chinese medicine, state control of reproductive health and birthing, and the adoption of modern biomedical practices. There are an estimated 16 million births annually in mainland China. [1] As of 2022, Chinese state media reported the country's total fertility rate to be 1. ...
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 of ...
China's family planning policies ( Chinese: 计划生育政策) have included specific birth quotas ( three-child policy, two-child policy, and the one-child policy) as well as harsh enforcement of such quotas. Together, these elements constitute the population planning program of the People's Republic of China. [1] [2] China's program should ...
Marriage in modern China. Attitudes about marriage have been influenced by Western countries, with more couples nowadays opting for western style weddings. Marriage in China has undergone change during the country's economic reform period, especially as a result of new legal policies such as the New Marriage Law of 1950 and the family planning ...
Abortions are available to most women through China's family planning program, public hospitals, private hospitals, and clinics nationwide. China was one of the first developing countries to permit abortion when the pregnant woman's health was at risk and make it easily accessible under these circumstances in the 1950s.
The causes of the high sex ratio in China result from a combination of strong son preference, the one-child policy, easy access to sex-selective abortion, food scarcity, and discrimination against and abuses of females. Son preference in Chinese historical and traditional culture
Metaformic Theory, as proposed by cultural theorist Judy Grahn and others, places menstruation as a central organizing idea in the creation of culture and the formation of humans' earliest rituals. Synchronisation with the moon. Menstruation in synchrony with the moon is widely assumed in myths and traditions as a ritual ideal.
For Chinese women, discovering personhood and kinship is challenging because Confucian culture can be an obstacle. Confucianism highlights the ideal of "men manage outside; women manage inside" ( Chinese : 男主外，女主内 ; pinyin : nán zhǔ wài, nǚ zhǔ nèi ), reflecting female subordination by encouraging women to remain in the ...