Tag Archives: Gender

The Ten Biggest Sex and Gender Stories of 2012

Posted on 2012-12-17 by Barry van Wyk

The City Lady (都市女报) from Shandong today has a front page story on the Ten Biggest Sex and Gender Stories of 2012 in China (年度十大性与性别事件). Based on an exercise led by the head of the Sex and Gender Institute at the Beijing … Continue reading →

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The body is the capital of the revolution

Posted on 2012-09-02 by Julien Leyre

This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published in Chinese on My1510.cn, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s post focuses on women’s bodies in China. An interview with cultural critic Zhang … Continue reading →

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Miss Universal Values

Posted on 2011-08-28 by Robert Foyle Hunwick

The band was playing Cocaine as the small entourage entered but it was highly doubtful any of them would ever touch the stuff: these were international representatives of China, “athletes” in a land of contradictions, competing for fresh spoils. After years of … Continue reading →

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