Little is known about how social media contribute to perpetuating gendered inequalities in doctoral supervision through time. This article draws on a time-focused theoretical framework to analyse a...

At a time when right-wing populism appears to be rampaging through global politics, studies about its discourses and strategies remain thin and even marginal in the field of international relations. T...

This article examines the experiences of rural Chinese Peidu mothers - women who migrate temporarily to cities to accompany their children’s schooling - through Bourdieu’s concept of capital and th...

The far-right label is not easily applied in China, but nevertheless there is a rising tide of xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, racism, anti-feminism, and social conservatism in Chinese online di...

By Jocelyn Xu For decades, the stories of “comfort women”—women that across Asia-Pacific Theatre forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese military between 1932 and 1945—remained largely …

Having more time allows some students to explore their interests.

By Boyang Liang The written form of the Chinese character “ren (endurance)” is composed of the radicals for “blade” and “heart,” evoking the image of a knife pressing against the heart and symbolis…

By Weiyu Yuan [The author offers this piece in both languages, with the simplified Chinese version after the English.] [本文作者提供了双语版本，简体中文版本位于英文版本之后。] Family (jia 家), the primary source of self-…

Editors’ introduction: The following piece, written by Lee Wai Kwan and translated by Yiwen Liu, originally appeared in Initium Media on 28 November 2025. In republishing it here in the Made in China ...

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The development of green technology is vital for driving economic growth and building low-carbon economies. In this era of technological advancement, …

On Xiaohongshu (a popular Chinese social media platform), a woman in a black dress poses with her female friends, a banner in the background spelling out “This fucking marriage ends here!”. The roo…

One summer evening in Chengdu, a video went viral: hundreds of women in sequined tops and trainers filled a shopping-mall plaza, dancing in synchrony to a remixed pop anthem. The clip was shared mi…

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

[The author offers this piece in both languages, with the simplified Chinese version after the English.] [本文作者提供了双语版本，简体中文版本位于英文版本之后。] English version While researching TV crime dramas in China, I …

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Dr Cora Lingling Xu, Durham University, discusses how time inequalities shape higher education mobility in China as part of China Week 2025.

Race has been documented as an imperative criterion in partner selection among migrants. However, most existing studies on this issue focused on second-generati...