I visited the Shenzhen Museum yesterday morning. I’ll write more about that later when I can get to my camera, but in the afternoon I went to a poetry workshop with the Shenzhen Writers Circle. For some reason, when I was told to just start writing, I wrote about this… A Dead Antelope at the Read More
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Why China Needs Feminism – So All People Can be Held Responsible for Their Actions
I just read an article in the Shenzhen Daily that has me fuming. A 16-year old girl gave birth to twins on Sunday. Her 20-year old boyfriend is denying paternity and avoiding her calls, refusing to take responsibility for the children. Already, there are two problems with this story. 1) The man is not being Read More
Women's History Month – Awesome Chinese Women You Never Heard Of
To celebrate Women’s History Month, I had a small piece published in the Shenzhen Daily today featuring three amazing, historical Chinese women you probably never heard of. Because of space and reasons, though, the article is pretty short and doesn’t do these women justice. After reading the article, I hope you will look up Mary Read More
Why Guangzhou Closing Its Baby Hatch Changes Nothing
Within hours of my article “Postponing of Baby Hatch Disgraces Shenzhen” being published, news broke that Guangzhou was temporarily closing its baby hatch (“baby hatch” is the unfortunate term used to describe small buildings where parents can safely abandon their children). According to authorities, the Guangzhou baby hatch had received so many children, the Social Read More
Postponing of baby hatch disgraces SZ
SHENZHEN officials recently announced that the opening of the city’s first baby hatch — a small facility where abandoned newborns can be safely dropped off — has been postponed indefinitely. This is unacceptable. While it’s important for the baby hatch to have functional equipment — authorities claim the delay is to allow further testing on Read More
Crazy Dumpling Cinnamon Roll
Today, I entered one of my dumpling recipes into the Spoonful My Take Winter Kitchen Contest sponsored by Disney. The challenge was to choose a recipe from eight winter recipes provided and make my own special version of it. Of course, I jumped at the chance to make a Disney dumpling. In fact, I recently Read More
Book Review: Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama is a novel about women who worked in a silk factory in rural southern China from the 1920s to the beginnings of the Japanese invasion in the mid-1930s. I picked up this book because I am very interested in the way silk was processed in China in pre-industrial Read More
Officials Express Concern for Rural Wives; That's Magazine Thinks it's a Joke
The Global Times ran a piece recently about how Chinese officials have expressed concerned for the rural wives of migrant workers. That’s Magazine, a popular group of English magazines ran a crass piece regurgitating the original article with the title “Official Concerned that Rural Women Aren’t Getting Laid Enough.” I’m not going to link it Read More
The Chinese Government Wants More Foreign Workers; Misses Irony
The China Daily reported today that “China will speed up the exploration of immigration policies this year to attract skilled foreign workers.” The funny thing is that the article doesn’t mention why China, one of the most populous nations on earth, is suffering a worker shortage other than an “aging population.” China has dug itself Read More
What I think about what Beijingers think about feminism
The following video “Beijingers on Feminism” was uploaded by the Shanghaiist earlier today*. It’s really interesting and I think everyone should watch it. So what is my take on it? First of all, it is unfortunate that the word “feminism” has such a bad rap here in China. It’s almost as bad as its reputation Read More