Crowds, noise, frustration and hostility are the reality in the country’s health care institutions.
Underlying the runaway success of the Chinese series The Story of Yanxi Palace are regressive and patriarchal attitudes to women that persist even in the aftermath of China’s #MeToo movement.
China is desperate to defuse a demographic time bomb, as the labour force shrinks and the national pension plan is stretched thin. But the state shouldn’t be pressuring women into motherhood.