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Haining Liu
Haining Liu
Haining Liu lives in Beijing and considers herself a lifelong journalist and aspiring writer. In reality, she pays her rent by providing communications strategies for clients who want to tell good stories. Haining read public policy at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. She is a clumsy amateur ballet dancer.

Underlying the runaway success of the Chinese series The Story of Yanxi Palace are regressive and patriarchal attitudes to women that persist even in the aftermath of China’s #MeToo movement.

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China is desperate to defuse a demographic time bomb, as the labour force shrinks and the national pension plan is stretched thin. But the state shouldn’t be pressuring women into motherhood.