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.
Death is a taboo subject in China, which means that many Chinese people die intestate, leaving families to fight amongst themselves or to battle bureaucracy to sort out the assets left behind after the death of a loved one. But one organization dedicated to helping Chinese people write wills says the pandemic caused a spike of interest, even from people in their 20s.
Chinese courts can make it very difficult for a woman to get a divorce. But Ning Shunhua might finally win the right to a legal separation from her deadbeat husband partly thanks to outrage on social media.
A useful guide to a diet that will get you in shape for the summer, or a recipe for self harm? Chinese internet users seem to think that a 36-day diet featuring 12 days of only water is crazy, even if it it did work for actress Zhou Weiting.
Another private school run by the U.S.-listed RYB Education is in the news in China for child abuse after the perpetrator uploaded photos to social media.
A video of a woman confronting her boss over alleged sexual harassment has gone viral on the Chinese internet.
Tech-savvy beverage startup Genki Forest has won over tens of millions of health-conscious customers with delicious drinks that contain no added sucrose. But some of those customers are angry to discover that low sucrose does not mean low sugar or low calorie.
Whether by saving or getting help from their parents, more and more young Chinese women are ensuring their future independence by buying their own homes.
State-supported consumer boycotts of international apparel and shoe brands like Nike and Adidas for their positions on cotton from Xinjiang have generated a craze for Chinese sneaker brands, and online merchants are cashing in.
New draft rules that ban inappropriate relations between teachers and students have won widespread support on Chinese social media, but critics are unhappy with the description of such relationships as “romances” rather than sexual crimes against minors.