In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence.

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As China censors homegrown feminism, a feminist scholar from Japan is on its bestseller lists

Chizuko Ueno, a 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar, has become a celebrity in China despite the government's promotion of conservative values. Ueno's popularity reflects a surge of interest in women's rights in the country. Her books have sold over half a million copies in China, and she is seen as a role model for women who choose not to marry or have children.

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In the last few years, China's government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence.

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A 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is not the kind of person you'd expect to get famous in China. But Chizuko Ueno, a

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Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is not the kind of person you’d expect to get famous in China. But Chizuko Ueno, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, is a phenomenon. Her books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the last year, and fans say she’s changed how they see feminism and how they feel about relationships. Activists …

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Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence. So a 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is an unlikely celebrity on the country’s tightly censored internet. But Ch…

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HONG KONG (AP) — In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil […]

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