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.
In a fresh attempt to address employee burnout and change China’s overwork culture, a video game developer owned by Chinese internet giant Tencent has introduced a set of policies designed to prevent employees from working excessive hours and encourage them to use vacation time.
Young people are treating their pets as family members as government pleas to procreate fall on deaf ears.
Should young boys be allowed to go into women’s changing rooms with their mothers at public swimming pools? The Chinese internet is divided.
A woman found a needle in a sanitary pad from Space7, although the last time a customer had a similar complaint about the brand, the product turned out to be counterfeit. Meanwhile, many women continue to live in “period poverty.”
POP MART, a multibillion-dollar business selling toys in “mystery boxes,” says nearly 70% of its workforce is female. So why has it been asking women about their pregnancy plans during job screenings?
A teenage competitor in a reality show has sparked a debate about the urban-rural divide after he made comments that some found inspirational but that others thought were creepy.
Nearly 60 years after the release of "Havoc in Heaven," the Chinese animation industry is now struggling to generate revenues at home while trying to expand its presence in the global marketplace. What went wrong?
Facing an aging population and declining birth rates, Beijing has further relaxed family planning policies. However, young Chinese people don’t seem interested.
Education officials in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province, are defending an extreme hiring preference for male teachers because they say there are too many female teachers and boys need manly role models.