Laughter erupts over a board game and coffee at a rural cottage in China's eastern province of Zhejiang, one of a growing ...

BEIJING: Laughter erupts over a board game and coffee at a rural cottage in China's eastern province of Zhejiang, one of a ...

Women come to share mutual support and "talk freely about intimate stuff", while others seek companionship or refuge from ...

Chinese women haunted by their parents’ struggles and their own sacrifices under the one-child policy eye parenthood with reluctance – making Beijing’s pro-birth push a tough sell.

Women returning to remote Chinese villages are building successful enterprises that transform rural economies, challenge gender roles and reshape community life.

Effective May 1, the new national law gives married women equal standing in rural land rights and empowers prosecutors to challenge discriminatory village rules.

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.

“Every woman my age in China has a story to tell,” our friend Eunice Ng says. When she was 9, Eunice’s mother went away for what her family said was “medical treatment.” She didn’t ...

Born in a rural village in China’s Shandong province, “we had no electricity until I was in the second grade, and I was the first girl in my village to go to high school,” recalled Zhu, a ...

With her short, permed hair and unshowy clothing, Fan Chunli looks every bit the middle-aged woman from rural China. Among a crowd of youngsters vying to become the next breakout star in one of ...