It was one of those midnight musings, so common during adulthood, when the regrets and triumphs of our lives become vibrant characters dancing in our minds.
Liu Fang wrote a simple statement on Weibo that read: “What I regret most in my life is getting married and having a kid. How wonderful to just be alone!” Her post captured an increasingly common reality in China, where many people, primarily women, are questioning the institution of marriage itself.
Liu, 38, has been married for seven years and has a six-year-old son. When she first got married, she expected her happiness to be doubled and her sorrow halved, she said in an interview.
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All-China Women’s Federation proposes listing domestic violence as separate item in alarm system
Huang Lanlan Published: Mar 05, 2021 09:49 PM
A performance artist wears a wedding dress splattered with red spots and holds a board that reads “Anti-domestic violence, no harm”at a street in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, on December 10, 2014. Photo: CFP
The All-China Women’s Federation proposed listing domestic violence as a separate item in China’s 110 alarm system at this year’s two sessions, media reports said.
In the proposal, the association suggests public security departments should list and record domestic violence cases that 110 receives separately from others, and urge the frontline law enforcement personnel to deal with these cases correctly.
CHINA / SOCIETY By Global Times Published: Mar 04, 2021 03:28 AM
A procuratorate employee in Changde, Central China s Hunan Province reads a brochure on preventing juvenile crime to local middle school students on April 23, 2015. Photos: CFP
To strengthen judicial protection for minors, China s Supreme People s Court (SPC) officially established a juvenile court office and set up juvenile court trial sites in six circuit courts on Tuesday, focusing on targeted research into juvenile trial issues, including crimes committed by underage children, child sexual abuse, child trafficking and school bullying.
The juvenile court office is mainly responsible for the comprehensive coordination of juvenile trial guidance, participation in the trial management of juvenile cases, and coordination of the work of juvenile cases, Yang Wanming, vice president of the SPC and director of the juvenile court office, said at the press conference.
Posted by Josh Rudolph | Jan 14, 2021
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On December 20, 2020, renowned East Asia scholar and Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel died at age 90. In a
With these words [on the rapid increase in economic livelihood, education. and longevity since 1989] Vogel indicates that he basically accepts an argument that the Communist Party’s Propaganda Department has been making for the past twenty years: that “stability” and economic growth show that the repression at Tiananmen was justified in the long run. When foreign dignitaries or journalists have asked about the massacre, the response of Party leaders has been consistent: if Deng Xiaoping had not taken “resolute” (i.e.,