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How a Japanese Feminist Scholar Became a Bestseller in China Chizuko Ueno’s popularity reflects a surge in interest in women’s rights, even as China’s government has cracked down on homegrown feminism. By Kanis Leung / AP September 29, 2023

In the last few years, Chinas government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence. So a 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is an unlikely celebrity on…

29 September 2023
UNESCO Listing Sparks Chaotic Tourist Boom in Ancient Thai Town As Thailand celebrates a new World Heritage Site designation, locals and experts are concerned the area isn’t fit for a surge of visitors. By Koh Ewe September 28, 2023

The Khao Klang Nok monument in Si Thep, an ancient town 150 miles north of Bangkok, has survived more than a thousand years as kingdoms and empires rose and fell around it. But in just the week since the terraced temple and its surrounding area was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations…

28 September 2023

How a Japanese Feminist Scholar Became a Bestseller in China Chizuko Ueno’s popularity reflects a surge in interest in women’s rights, even as China’s government has cracked down on homegrown feminism. By Kanis Leung / AP September 29, 2023