Sheng nu (leftover women). Wikipedia.
Elite Single Chinese Face “Leftover Lady” Discount. By Jia You. WeNews, September 11, 2011.
For China’s Educated Single Ladies, Finding Love Is Often a Struggle. By Sushma Subramanian and Deborah Jian Lee. The Atlantic, October 19, 2011. Also at Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
China’s “Leftover” Women. By Leta Hong Fincher. New York Times, October 11, 2012.
China’s “leftover women” choosing to stay single. By Leta Hong Fincher. CNN, August 21, 2013.
Letter to Parents Worried About Their Daughter Becoming a “Leftover Woman.” By Joy Chen. The Huffington Post, March 4, 2013. Also at Global Rencai.
China’s “Leftover Women” Desperate to Find Mr. Right. By Susan Donaldson James. ABC News, July 11, 2013.
China’s shengnu, or “leftover women,” face intense pressure to marry. By Julie Makinen and Don Lee. Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2013.
A good man is hard to find: China's “leftover women” look for love abroad. By Isobel Yeung. South China Morning Post Magazine, April 27, 2014.
Over 27? Unmarried? Female? You’d be on the scrapheap in China. By Marta Cooper. The Telegraph, April 30, 2014.
If Asian Women Hit on White Dudes the Way White Dudes Hit on Asian Women. By Alanna Vagianos. The Huffington Post, November 11, 2014.
“Yellow fever” fetish: Why do so many white men want to date a Chinese woman? By Yuan Ren. The Telegraph, July 1, 2014.
Yellow Fever: Dating as an Asian Woman. By Lauren sMash. Persephone Magazine, January 26, 2012. Also at Everyday Feminism.
The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Ladies. By Christina Larson. Foreign Policy, May/June 2012.
Who are
you calling “leftover?” Huang Yuanyuan (front) and her colleague Wang Tingting.
Author Joy Chen on marriage, work and life. Video. chinadailyus, December 11, 2012. YouTube. Also at YouKu.
Plight of young “leftover women” in China. By Chip Reid. Video and transcript. CBS This Morning. CBS News, June 28, 2012. YouTube.
