The hukou system, established in the 1950s, required Chinese citizens to be registered in a particular locality at birth and institutionalized a strict division between rural and urban residents.

In a small farming village in Henan province, where generations of families have lived among fields of wheat and corn, 20-year-old Fan Zihe stands out. Her dark complexion and South Asian features are ...

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 ...

When jiang shengnan, a Chinese lawmaker turned political adviser, was born in 1973, a third daughter to parents in the coastal city of Wenzhou, many urged her mother to keep trying for a son. She ...

In the quiet backwaters of Yunnan, Dong Meihua – though her followers know her by the public alias Dianxi Xiaoge – has done something remarkable: She’s taken the pastoral simplicity of rural China and ...