https://www.scmp.com/rss/330928/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com [Sponsored article]   The Year of the Pig has marked a new beginning for Duan Yuli and Yang Yang, two 20-something women living and working in Shanghai.   Duan, 28, originally from Anqing, and Yang, 25, from Wenzhou, have mixed feelings about Chinese New Year for a long time. The year’s most important holiday sees about 400 million Chinese return home to visit their parents and extended families. But both women, and millions like them, dreaded it for one shared reason: the inevitable “marriage... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/society/topics/meeting-halfway/article/3001104/why-stories-two-unmarried-women?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/society/topics/meeting-halfway/article/3001104/why-stories-two-unmarried-women?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:41:50 +0000 [Sponsored article]   In mature economies, a strong, independent, educated young woman on the cusp of a promising career is held up as a role model of a progressive – and egalitarian – modern society. In mainland China, the pressure to marry young persists. If a woman is single and “of a certain age”, it is not uncommon to hear people conclude that “there is something wrong with her”. As recently as 2007, the Ministry of Education publicly stigmatised women who were 27 years or older and single... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/society/topics/meeting-halfway/article/2187281/when-marrying-young-norm?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/society/topics/meeting-halfway/article/2187281/when-marrying-young-norm?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Feb 2019 03:30:00 +0000