On March 3, 2025, in Hunan, China, @Hónglǎobǎnkǎomìshǔ shared a video capturing a playful winter moment in a village aptly ...

Growing numbers of Chinese women are challenging a longstanding tradition that denies them village membership, and the lucrative payouts that go with it. By Vivian Wang Vivian Wang traveled to ...

Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights. Village assemblies, ostensibly autonomous local political organizations, decide who is a member of ...

After decades of exclusion and legal ambiguity, a new national law in China bars villages from stripping women of membership and related land rights because they married and moved away. The ...