In the tea-growing hills of southern China, bonds of blood make villages strong. Most residents of Lüchuwu, a village in the pine-clad highlands of Fujian province, share just two surnames between ...

ROBERT SIEGEL: In a village in Eastern China, dozens of armed men have kept a blind peasant organizer under house arrest, without charge, for the past six months. The man uncovered a local government ...

China is ramping up efforts to counter its plummeting birth rate, with measures ranging from cash incentives to controversial local campaigns urging women to have children. Last year marked the ...

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 ...

Hundreds of millions of people across China are reuniting with their families to celebrate the Lunar New Year — but for some, the festive season is also filled with violence. In recent years, facing a ...

The 630 changes exhibit a greater campaign within China toward eliminating all religious belief, according to Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. The renaming ...

Women in rural China now constitute over half of the rural workforce, and in recent years, have been rising as key drivers of ...

MS MAO WAS making lunch one day at her home in the eastern city of Wuxi when she got the phone call. Rather than the courier’s delivery update she was expecting, she found herself subject to an ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author and U.K. Labour Party candidate Yuan Yang about what women face in her former home country of China. Sponsor Message STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: In this summer's U.K.