Jiayun (Jenny) Feng is the Society and Culture Editor at The China Project. Born and raised in Shanghai, she is a bilingual journalist committed to reporting on China-related issues with a global perspective.
Fans of the comedian Li Xueqin had mixed feelings about her appearance in a For Him magazine photo shoot — especially after she rose to fame by skewering the expectations society places on celebrity women.
Li Ying, a member of the Chinese women’s national soccer team, has made history as the first high-profile Chinese athlete to come out as a lesbian.
One of China’s biggest video apps, Kuaishou, once installed sensors in toilets to monitor how long employees took in the bathroom. Now the company has put an end to six day work weeks for tech staff, shortly after ByteDance — which owns China’s dominant short video platform — decided to continue the practice.
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is famous for its workaholic culture, and many of its employees don’t want it to change despite growing calls in China for better work-life balance at tech companies.
Did graduates of a prestigious design school feed into racist stereotypes with a fashion show featuring models who all had noticeably slanted eyes, and makeup to accentuate their “Chinese eyes”? Or are Chinese internet users just oversensitive?
In the year 2021, a contemporary art museum in Shanghai decided that, for some inexplicable reason, it was appropriate to provide a platform for an artwork that ranked thousands of real-life young women by appearance. Predictably, the backlash was fierce.
CCTV is determined to police the way entertainers dress. The latest example: the digital alteration of a promotional photo of an actress that showed just a hint of cleavage.
Will a renewed crackdown and a new government department specifically to regulate commercial education companies kill the booming industry?
Chinese internet users branded D&G racist in 2018, and they have not forgotten or forgiven the fashion house, as Karen Mok discovered this past weekend.