China’s marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 million the previous year. This decline has prompted Chen Songxi, a Chinese ...

Cases of domestic violence in China point to a legal system that looks good on paper but is failing victims because of a lack ...

On Feb. 1, 2025, China’s Supreme People’s Court officially adopted a series of new interpretations of the country’s marriage and family laws. Buried in Article 8 of the document was a line that could ...

In a nationwide effort to increase marriage rates, China began allowing couples to get married anywhere in the country last ...

The eastern Chinese city of Ningbo is introducing marriage consumption vouchers for couples registering their union between ...

HONG KONG, March 11 (Reuters) - Several Chinese labour unions, including in central Hunan province and the southern hub of Shenzhen, issued official notices to companies to stop requiring prospective ...

The mistress dispeller industry sprang up during China’s economic boom of the 2010s, at a time when divorce rates were skyrocketing. In a country where emperors once kept dozens of concubines, it was ...

Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit ...

A Chinese man who cryogenically preserved his terminally ill wife has caused public debate after entering a new relationship, raising ethical questions about love, loyalty, and science.