Domestic violence against women is high on the agenda after Kim Lee, the US wife of celebrity Li Yang, won her divorce in a Beijing court. But other women have it way tougher, author Zhang Lijia writes in The Guardian, and strengthening of domestic violence laws is urgently needed.Read More →
Officially prostitution is banned in China, but is booming business at the same time. Author Zhang Lijia is preparing a book on prostitution in China and describes on her weblog how police violence, and their bribes, is part of daily life for the working girls.
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The emergence of Peng Liyuan, the popular singer, at the side of the next Chinese president, Xi Jinping, brings back the stories of earlier ‘Dragon ladies’. Author and China veteran Paul French explains in SMH why she will will never become a first lady in US-style.Read More →
The famous singer Peng Liyuan was more popular than her husband,the upcoming president Xi Jinping. She could use that popularity as China’s first lady, but author Zhang Lijia estimates those chances are limited, as women are not welcome in China’s power houses, she tells The National. Read More →
A growing group of well-educated Chinese women have a hard time to find a husband. Shengnu or “leftover” women they are called and author Zhang Lijia explains in The Telegraph why that is a highly insulting description.Read More →
Getting a sun taint is traditionally not done in China, especially for women. The Asia Society collected stories on a dark color and celebrity author Zhang Lijia tells how a darker skin was met with scorn in her youth.Read More →
Gu Kailai, the wife of disposed leader Bo Xilai, was the last woman in a Chinese tradition of so-called dragon ladies. Historian and author Paul French puts her in that tradition together with empress Cixi, Jiang Qing and many others in Foreign Policy. Read More →
Most seven out of ten self-made female billionaires are Chinese, says the Hurun rich list, and author Zhang Lijia explains in The Guardian why despite that achievement women entrepreneurs still have a long march to go.Read More →
Love in China is complicated, and often disguised in numbers, explains author Zhang Lijia on this Valentines’ Day on her weblog. “We need more love, not more money.”Read More →
Author Zhang Lijia reviews the novel Paying for It by Canadian comic artist Chester Brown on prostitution, but gets nicely sidetracked into her own upcoming novel on prostitution in China.Read More →
Business analyst Shaun Rein is interview on his upcoming book The End of Cheap China by David Jackson Seeking Alpha. The kick-off: what trends are Western firms missing in China (and much more)?Read More →
The financial crisis in both Europe and the US is deepening, so it is no wonder that the November top-10 of most sought-after speakers has a few of our financial specialists on top. Both Shaun Rein and Victor Shih have been trying to dispel especially European hopes China could bail their economy out.Read More →