As compensation for providing housing and food for his daughter’s family of three, a grandfather demanded that his granddaughter take his surname. The man’s daughter, who lives in Shanghai, made a ...

During fieldwork in cities in China, I came across a new marital practice, locally described as liang-tou-dun, literally "two places to stay." A bride and groom, each an only child of their respective ...

If you stop a random person on the street in China, there’s a pretty good chance their surname would be either Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu or Chen. That’s because those are the five most common surnames in ...

AS CHINA EMERGED from lockdown, a woman wrote a post on Weibo, a microblog, that has echoed through the long, hot summer. She was divorcing her husband, she said, because he would not allow her to ...

Drawn-out legal battle turns spotlight on patriarchal tradition amid growing trend of assertive woman entering into so-called ...

Whose name should a child have, anyway? That’s the question up for discussion on Chinese social media after a woman said she had divorced her husband because he refused to allow their son to bear her ...