This village is not just a regular place; it has been recognised by the Guinness World Records as the village with the world’s longest-haired women. People from all over the world visit this village ...

China is ramping up efforts to counter its plummeting birth rate, with measures ranging from cash incentives to controversial local campaigns urging women to have children. Last year marked the ...

Hundreds of millions of people across China are reuniting with their families to celebrate the Lunar New Year — but for some, the festive season is also filled with violence. In recent years, facing a ...

MS MAO WAS making lunch one day at her home in the eastern city of Wuxi when she got the phone call. Rather than the courier’s delivery update she was expecting, she found herself subject to an ...

The return of ethnic minority women to remote rural areas to explore entrepreneurial opportunities has positively driven the transformation and development of the rural economy in China. These women ...

After decades of exclusion and legal ambiguity, a new national law in China bars villages from stripping women of membership and related land rights because they married and moved away. The ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author and U.K. Labour Party candidate Yuan Yang about what women face in her former home country of China. Sponsor Message STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: In this summer's U.K.