Newsletter 52 - Introduction to gender issues in China, part 5

1. Not so good.

This year, because of the chained women, college students were protesting on Women’s day. The following photos are circulating on twitter:

1 Shanghai

College students cosplay:

2 (outside China) National Taiwan University,

college students with signs (from left to right)

  1. (UP) Know my name, remember my name.

  2. (DOWN) A nightingale becomes mute. You have tried so hard.

  3. Women connected, break up the chains.

  4. The 3.8 women’s day, liberate women from the chains.

3 A woman protests in her home:

“Women are not a tool for you to unleash your desire. Terminate all trafficking, imprisonment and rape.”

4 A sign made in tribute to the chained woman:

It says: respect women and children, take care of the future of the world.

5 A sign made to protest against the 3 children policy:

It says: Either you give birth to three children as you are told, or you will be locked to be forced to have 8 children.

(March the 8th in Chinese is 3.8.)

6 A writer wrote on Weibo:

(rough translation) : Women’s day is coming, I bought myself a brand new and heavy necklace, to commemorate the women who are chained and caged. Since the visible and invisible chains are still here, from this day, I consider this day a shame. I am posting it here as a proof.

7 People posted this on their Wechat moment:

Artist unknown

8 @Jorsin- and @revos_one made a mural in Tianjin:

It became very popular on social media, so the government removed it:

2. State media wants women to think of men on women’s day.

1 This tweet from Global Times got some attention:

Global Times is the official propaganda tabloid newspaper

2 And another official newspaper in China chimed in:

It is Putin the war criminal.

3 Meanwhile, someone shared a company event for the women’s day:

Of course, Women’s day is the time for men to express their opinion on women.

(rough translation) Solicitation

As the 2022.3.8 is arriving, we are planning for a short video.

First, for “38” women’s day, our male employees have some words

Interview questions:

  1. Is your female colleague good looking?

  2. If you have a choice to marry your female colleague, would you?

  3. Describe your colleague.

  4. What would you like to tell your female colleague?

Anyone who is willing to be interviewed can contact me. We will come to make the video, you just need to prepare for what to say.

4 On social media, it is disclosed that Nankai University required female students to take a course on “How to help your husband succeed”. The very first chapter of the class is posted:

The title is: The importance of appearance to women

First sentence: “Curve is: whatever you wear you make people faint, and if you wear nothing, you make people lose their consciousness.”

You get the idea.

Nankai is a very prestigious university in China.

3. The two sessions could not stop thinking of women …. to have a third child

As the representatives of the congress and the party are holding meetings called “Two Sessions”, they have not forgot women either. Here is a glance at the agenda:

1: A proposal to encourage Master and Ph.D degree candidates to get married and have children while in school

4: How to increase the willingness to have a third kid.

17: A proposal to make it free for the third kid to go to kindergarten.

21: A proposal to add 10-20 points to the score of college entrance exam of the third kid.

30: A proposal to give a subsidy of 1000 yuan (US$ 160) to a family with three kids per month.

35: A proposal to set up a committee in the unions to help solve the problem of being single

41: A proposal to cities where buying homes is restricted to give priority to family with 3 kids.

That is what the 3.8 women’s day look like in China now.

4. “Save our sisters” was premiered in Paris on 3.8

A movie by Chinese film director Hu Xueyang was premiered in Paris.. The film is co-produced by Yan Geling, a Chinese overseas writer who called our dear supreme leader a Human Trafficker and was banned on Chinese oscial media promptly (see newsletter 41).

This film is about the ordeal of women escaping from North Korea and ended up in the hands of human traffickers in China.