Conversation
04.18.18
A Ban on Gay Content, Stopped in Its Tracks
On April 13, China’s major microblogging platform Sina Weibo announced that, in order to create “a sunny and harmonious” environment, it would remove videos and comics “with pornographic implications, promoting bloody violence, or related to...
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03.08.17Shock and Praise for Groundbreaking Sex-Ed Textbook in China
CNN
A big step forward for a country long criticized for depriving children of necessary sex education, or graphic bordering on pornographic? That’s the question being asked in China over a series of textbooks aimed at children ages 6 to 13.
Features
12.15.16
‘Caught in Quicksand’: Gay and HIV-Positive in China
China is a country with giant cities, huge skyscrapers, and the world’s second largest economy. But underneath its modern looking facade, the country is still very traditional; this is especially true of attitudes toward homosexuality.China’s...
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10.25.16HIV is Growing So Fast Among Chinese Youth that a University Sells Test Kits in Vending Machines
Quartz
The kits, which cost less than $5, are sold alongside snacks and drinks in the machines at China’s Southwest Petroleum University in Sichuan Province
Depth of Field
04.03.16
Meet ‘Depth of Field’: The Month’s Best Chinese Photojournalism
from Yuanjin Photo
Welcome to ChinaFile’s inaugural “Depth of Field” column. In collaboration with Yuanjin Photo, an independent photo blog published by photographers Yan Cong and Ye Ming on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, we will highlight new and...
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11.19.15Dream of The Bed Chamber
Economist
It is not just China’s economy that has loosened up since 1979. The country is in the midst of a sexual revolution.
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09.18.15Teaching ABCs of The Birds And The Bees
Shanghai Daily
Pupils eagerly participate in a class about sex and gender difference at a school in Shanghai.
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04.02.15‘Masturbation Will Lead to Homosexuality’: China’s LGBT Sex-Ed Problem in Chinese
Nation
In a country where sex and sexuality remain taboo topics of discussion, such misinformation remains common.
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06.19.14Do Chinese Classrooms Need to Talk About Sex?
CNN
Sex education is taught inadequately in school and avoided by parents, resulting in generations of Chinese children growing up wondering if babies come out of armpits, or from the garbage dump, as others have also cited.
Media
11.06.13
Sex Ed Videos Go Viral
A collection of sex education videos have just gone, ahem, viral on the Chinese Internet. On October 29, a three-person team calling itself the “Nutcracker Studio” released three one-minute clips addressing tough topics in childhood sex education,...
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08.27.13Teach About Sex? Attitudes Start to Shift Slowly in China
Christian Science Monitor
Professor of sociology Li Yinhe never thought she would see the day she’d be allowed to host a safe-sex education exhibition at a public institution in conservative China. That it was permitted at all...