Women in Shanghai gather in bars, salons and bookstores to reclaim their identities as the country’s leader calls for China to adopt a “childbearing culture.”

First off, terrible headline. The “ruled by men” is totally unnecessary and biased.

Second, there are certainly much worse events going on in the world right now. This is hardly the most important.

It’s an interesting article though about how some women feel in China about government policies and how they’re meeting to discuss feminism and women empowerment. It’s disappointing to see that the Chinese government has adopted a similar stance to US Republicans.

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    Women in Shanghai, and some of China’s other biggest cities, are negotiating the fragile terms of public expression at a politically precarious moment.

    “I think everyone living in this city seems to have reached this stage that they want to explore more about the power of women,” said Du Wen, the founder of Her, a bar that hosts salon discussions.

    “Why are lonely ghosts always female?” one woman recently asked, referring to Chinese literature’s depiction of homeless women after death.

    Stories have circulated widely online of women being physically maimed or brutally murdered for trying to leave their husbands, or savagely beaten for resisting unwanted attention from men.

    Instead she described her bookstore as “woman-themed.” When she opened it in 2020, the store was a sprawling space with nooks to foster private conversations and six study rooms named after famous female authors like Simone de Beauvoir.

    Ms. Wang recently moved Xin Chao Bookstore into Shanghai Book City, a famous store with large atriums and long columns of bookcases.

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