Sex and the Contemporary Chinese Woman

A full 90.6 percent of the women that participated in the investigation spoke openly on the topic of their sexual desires and 75.1 percent of them expressed satisfaction with their sex life.     

Campus Sex—Forbidden Fruit

IN January 2003,students XiaoLin and Xiao Ma made anignominious departure fromChongqing Institute of Postsand Telecommunications.Thereason?Their ongoing relation-ship had resulted in Xiao Ma’spregnancy.Consequently theywere expelled. The relevant school rulereads:In cases of immoral behav-ior,offenders will either receive awarning or an entry in their per-sonal dossier. In extreme cases ofsexual misconduct,offenders willbe suspended or expelled.     

Sexual Harassment-A Matter of Social Concern

WHILE working as consultant on a women's helpline I received many letters and calls about sexual harassment. One 26-year-old woman told me how she had been demoted from her position as accountant to that of cleaner because she rebuffed the sexual advances of her manager. On reporting him the manager concerned suffered no reprisals whatever. She, on the other hand, was ostracized by her colleagues and friends. Even her husband upbraided her for being oversensitive. She wrote to me asking for legal advice.     

Marriage and the Family in Rural and Urban China

TANGIBLE disparity existsbetween standards of life inChina’s rural and urbanareas,and in their levels ofgender equality.This adds com-plexity to China’s overall maritaland famitial situation.The urbaneconomy and culture are movingin the direction of those of devel—oped countries,as the rural econo—my shifts from being agriculture-dominated to one co—buttressed by     

Chinese Middle-Aged Confusion

THE middle-aged generation, those of the age 40 to 55, is special in China. Born in the 1950s and early 1960s, they grew up in the most difficult and chaotic periods of recent Chinese history, having experienced and suffered the Great Leap Forward at the end of the fifties and the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976). The Chinese economy stagnated in those years, and universities and