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  2. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    White (白, bái) corresponds with metal among the wuxing and represents gold. [dubious – discuss] It symbolizes brightness, purity, and fulfillment. [citation needed] White is also the traditional color of mourning. [9] Ever since the Chinese economic reform and influx of Western cultural values, white wedding gowns have become more popular.

  3. Tujia people - Wikipedia

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    The Tujia (Northern Tujia: Bifjixkhar / Bifzixkar, IPA: /bi˧˥ dʑi˥ kʰa˨˩/ /pi˧˥ tsi˥ kʰa˨˩/, Southern Tujia: Mongrzzir, /mõ˨˩ dzi˨˩/; Chinese: 土家族; pinyin: Tǔjiāzú; Wade–Giles: Tu 3-chia 1-tsu 2) are an ethnic group and, with a total population of over 8 million, the eighth-largest officially recognized ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China.

  4. Hui'an maidens - Wikipedia

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    Hui'an maidens or Hui'an women (Chinese: 惠安女; pinyin: Huì'ān nǚ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hūi-oaⁿ cha-bó͘) are a Han Chinese subgroup that are a part of a distinct Han community residing in Hui'an County of Quanzhou, Fujian, China. They have a distinct dress and marital customs that have been the focus of both anthropologists and ...

  5. Race and sexuality - Wikipedia

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    Chinese advertisements depict Western women as symbols of strength. The body language of Chinese models in ads expresses shyness and docility, while the body language of Western women demonstrates power and unashamedness. The study suggested White women are even presented with qualities otherwise considered to be "masculine" in Chinese culture ...

  6. Sexuality in China - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese language, xingkaifang (性 开 放) is the phrase to describe the sexual opening-up, [19] "a globalizing sexual culture prevailing China." [ 19 ] Urbanization in China has been accelerating the sexual revolution by providing people with more private space and freedom to enjoy sex, as compared with what was afforded by the traditional ...

  7. Traditional Chinese marriage - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese marriage (Chinese: 婚姻; pinyin: hūnyīn) is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involves not only a union between spouses but also a union between the two families of a man and a woman, sometimes established by pre-arrangement between families. Marriage and family are inextricably linked, which involves the ...

  8. Globalization and women in China - Wikipedia

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    Writings on Chinese woman rarely account for differences in time, ethnicity, class, region or age, preferring to describe the status of women as a static, unitary fixture of Chinese culture, despite the political and geographic boundaries that defined different regions and the economic and social changes that occurred throughout history. [7]

  9. Women in China - Wikipedia

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    Traditional culture emphasized the role of grandmothers in the management of childbirth. [92] Chinese health care has since undergone much reform and has tried to provide men and women with equal health care. The People's Republic of China has enacted various laws to protect the health care rights of women, including the Maternal and Child Care ...