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Hold on, the reason All-China Women’s Federation stopped using the derogatory shengnv 剩女Term is because of my fierce criticism of them. THREAD.
As I write in my book “Leftover Women”, I believe it is no coincidence that the Women’s Federation website posted its first article on “leftover” women in 2007, shortly after China’s State Council issued its “Decision on Fully Enhancing the Population and Family Planning...
Program...to address “unprecedented population pressures.” The State Council names the sex-ratio imbalance as one of the population pressures because it “causes a threat to social stability.” It also cites the “low quality of the general population” (#LeftoverWomen p. 28)
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