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Young Chinese Women Are Defying the Communist Party

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The pressure to marry began when Amiee was in her early 20s.

By 25, her Chinese parents were accusing her of causing them a public loss of face because she still had no plans to wed. Her father warned her that women are worth less to a man as they near the age of 30, when — according to Chinese government propaganda — their peak childbearing time has passed. When Amiee was 29, her mother threatened to jump off a building if she didn’t find a husband.

At family gatherings like Chinese New Year, relatives badgered her to help her “entire clan find peace”, she told me, and at work she was pressured into company-organized blind dates, chaperoned by several colleagues.…  Seguir leyendo »

Why Peng Shuai Has China’s Leaders Spooked

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Cuatro años después de que el movimiento #MeToo sacudió las instituciones de poder a nivel mundial, uno de los casos con mayores repercusiones políticas hasta la fecha se está desarrollando en el sitio más improbable: China. Y, como es usual, el gobierno está tratando de silenciar la disidencia.

Sin embargo, la respuesta coreografiada del Partido Comunista de China ante las acusaciones de abuso sexual de una estrella del tenis ha resultado increíblemente contraproducente. En lugar de acabar con el escándalo, está impulsando el movimiento feminista de China y hasta podría llegar a plantear un desafío para el propio partido.

El 2 de noviembre, Peng Shuai, excampeona de Wimbledon en la categoría de dobles, acusó a un ex vice primer ministro de China, Zhang Gaoli, de agresión sexual.…  Seguir leyendo »

Why Peng Shuai Has China’s Leaders Spooked

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Four years after the #MeToo movement rocked global halls of power, one of its most politically consequential cases to date is unfolding in the unlikeliest of places: China. And unsurprisingly, the government there is trying to silence the dissent.

Yet the Chinese Communist Party’s choreographed response to a tennis star’s sexual assault allegations has backfired spectacularly. Instead of squashing a scandal, it is fueling China’s feminist movement — it could ultimately pose a challenge to the party itself.

On Nov. 2, Peng Shuai, a former Wimbledon doubles champion, accused China’s former vice premier, Zhang Gaoli, of sexual assault. “Like an egg hitting a rock, or a moth to the flame, courting self-destruction, I’ll tell the truth about you”, she wrote in a lengthy post on Weibo, China’s popular social media platform.…  Seguir leyendo »

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In 1968, Chairman Mao Zedong famously declared that Chinese women ought to “hold up half the sky.” Yet in 2015, the government detained China’s “feminist five” for planning to distribute anti-sexual harassment materials in public. Two years later, Beijing is still nervous about gender activism. In May 2017, Guangzhou police searched the houses of feminists who they suspected were printing clothing with slogans against sexual harassment.

Gender has become a politically sensitive word in China.

Why would a party that liberated women be threatened by a handful of 20-year-olds who champion the very rights that the government espouses?

My student and I went to China to find out.…  Seguir leyendo »

Why Chinese Women Still Can’t Get a Break

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On a Saturday afternoon in late September, I sat in the brand-new auditorium of my former high school in Beijing, watching the gala for my 10-year reunion. Near the end, teachers stepped onto the stage to deliver speeches.

“Girls, I hope you will focus on finding your life partners”, said the Chinese-language teacher, with the same stern air as when she urged us to succeed on the college entrance exam. “Marriage cannot be delayed”, the biology teacher said. The physical education teacher offered to set up single alumnae with eligible bachelors at her husband’s company.

At the dinner afterward, the conversation at my table turned to career changes.…  Seguir leyendo »

China’s Feminist Awakening

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I didn’t think much of it when the police took away five of my friends and fellow feminist activists in early March for planning a protest against sexual harassment on public transportation in Beijing. Similar arrests had happened to all of us before, and we were always let go after a few hours of interrogation. But when my friends didn’t come home that evening or the following day, I realized it was different this time. Given that I had planned and participated in many activities with them, I worried that I could be the next target and be forced to provide “evidence” against my friends.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Lately, a stream of rosy media accounts has been telling the world to look to China as a model of gender equality in the workplace. “China Dominates List of Female Billionaires” and “Women in China: the Sky’s the Limit” are some recent examples from the international press.

But the cascade of optimistic portraits detracts from what is really happening to women in China’s fast-growing urban work force. They are losing ground fast.

The 2010 census put the percentage of working-age women in the work force at 74. The figure stacks up well against other countries such as the United States and Australia, where about 75 percent of working-age women were employed in 2010.…  Seguir leyendo »

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N'en déplaise à ses détracteurs, le féminisme non seulement n'est pas mort mais, en bénéficiant de la globalisation, il contribue à l'orienter vers plus de liberté pour tous. La participation des femmes au "printemps de jasmin", la sensibilisation de l'opinion française contre "la violence faite aux femmes", l'accompagnement du désir de maternité et de ses implications éthiques : autant d'événements qui témoignent d'une nouvelle phase dans l'émancipation féminine.

L'histoire ancienne et récente semble avoir préparé la vitalité combative de cette "moitié du ciel" qu'est le "deuxième sexe" en Chine. Se souvient-on qu'au pays du yin et du yang, du taoïsme et du confucianisme, la révolution bourgeoise fut nationaliste, socialiste et féministe ?…  Seguir leyendo »