Ting Guo received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Edinburgh and has worked for the European Studies Centre, University of Oxford and the Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University. She writes bilingually and is the feature editor for sobooks.tw and contributor for Los Angeles Review of Books. She can be reached at @tingguowrites and https://ting902.com/.
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Published in: 50.50Cyber-feminism in China: between expression and oppressionIn early 2017, a young woman's experiences of violence went viral on Weibo. Her case demonstrates the paradox of social media in China.
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Published in: 50.50The first transgender celebrity in China and her sexist dating showJin Xing is a progressive icon, and the first person to openly undergo gender reassignment surgery in China. Why is she now hosting a show that helps parents select docile daughters-in-law?
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Published in: 50.50Questioning rape in ChinaChina is witnessing more and more spontaneous protests and online discussions against rape and the deeper structural issues that lie behind questions of sexuality.
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Published in: 50.50China's "leftover women" and the left-out systemCan a skin brand “change your destiny” in a socially empowering way? A video titled ‘Marriage Market Takeover’ seems to have done a good job, but not without an underlying agenda.
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Published in: 50.50The end of China’s one child policy: the right to reproduce and the right to live wellChina's one-child policy fundamentally changed the most intimate aspects of Chinese lives. It's removal last month may have been more welcome if structural forces did not remain that continue to stifle the ability of individuals and families to build lives of their own choosing.
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Published in: 50.50Blood brides: feminist activists cracking China’s patriarchal orderWith echoes of Russia's Pussy Riot, the arrest of five young women on the eve of International Women’s Day drew attention to the feminist activist movements simmering below the surface in China.