Fan Yue, left, and Ji Yingnan, right, are seen in a selfie taken on the Great Wall of China. Ji released images online after realizing Fan was married.Courtesy of Ji Yingnan Valentine’s Day 2012 ...

Captain Wu Haiyan says change would be 'big improvement' for game ahead of women's regional tournament, Japan head coach ...

In China, each woman went from having about three children in the late 1970s to now one. Decades later, the Chinese government wants women to have three children again but is meeting resistance.

The housing market in China is in turmoil. But more and more women, facing a less equal society, are buying their own homes in search of security. By Joy Dong After she signed the contract for her ...

For many city girls in the "rich China," the one-child policy has been a boon. To their parents, who have wage jobs, secure incomes and pensions, boys are no longer needed to provide labor, income ...

China’s male leaders push for women to stay home. The National Women’s Congress, held every five years, has long been a forum for the ruling Communist Party to demonstrate its commitment to women.

And a whopping 44% of urban women ages 18 to 26 in China do not want to get married at all, according to a survey by the Chinese Communist Youth League released in October. A quarter of men in ...

BEIJING — For Qi Jia, an office worker and blogger in China, the decision to divorce her husband was not one she took lightly. "He became so sloppy and had an addiction to gaming," Qi, 39, who ...

HONG FINCHER: Most women and girls used to be illiterate in China, certainly when the communists came to power in 1949, and then that was one of the achievements of the Communist Party was that ...

Faced with a worrying demographic crisis of its own making, China is encouraging couples to have more children. There’s just one problem: women aren’t too keen on the idea. For more than 35 ...

And Islam in China, with its long tradition of women-only mosques, provides a good illustration, says Michael Wood. In the middle of the plain of the Yellow River in Henan province is the city of ...

The official numbers show China has 723.34 million men and 688.44 million women, accounting for 51.24 percent and 48.76 percent of the population, respectively.