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An advertisement centred around "leftover women" in China has gone viral, provoking an emotional debate about single women in the country. The issue of unmarried females, often stigmatised as "sheng nu" or leftover women , has long been a topic of concern in a society that prioritises marriage and motherhood for women. He also said the company was adopting "a positive approach in helping women face pressures". By government definition, a "leftover woman" refers to any unmarried female above the age of China's ruling Communist Party tries to urge single women to marry, to offset a huge gender imbalance caused by the recently ended one-child policy. But according to Leta Hong Fincher, author of "Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China", single Chinese women are at "a real turning point" and many are beginning to embrace a single lifestyle and push back the stigma.
Heavy pressures from society
I went to language school to learn English and French. I enjoyed my life very much. But when I went home to visit my parents, they would bother me about marriage. Her parents were not the only ones. It shows the relentless pressure faced by educated, single Chinese women to find a husband. Maybe very bossy.
But for millennial Chinese women, it was an all-too-familiar concept. Sheng nu , which refers to any woman over the age of 27 who is still single, applies to a growing body of women seeking education, economic freedom, and a more unconventional life path than their parents. This campaign of fear is especially effective considering the integral role of family within Chinese culture. The documentary, produced by luxury Japanese skin-care line SK-II which was promoted with the hashtag changedestiny , was created as a rally cry for young women to continue the fight for happiness on their own terms. View Iframe URL. Li Chenxi, a landscape designer in her late 20s, works in Beijing, about miles south of her home city, Harbin. Each Chinese New Year, she faces the lengthy journey home, and the crushing weight of parental disappointment when she arrives alone. And so Li Chenxi finds herself trundling north, prepping her hired boyfriend with photos of her family and confirming details of their fabricated relationship.
