{"id":58228,"date":"2023-09-10T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/10\/chinas-good-for-marriage-womens-trend-ignites-social-media-debate"},"modified":"2023-09-10T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T02:58:18","slug":"its-offensive-backlash-against-chinas-good-for-marriage-womens-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58228","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s offensive\u2019: backlash against China\u2019s \u2018good for marriage\u2019 women\u2019s trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Style featuring pastel makeup and modest clothing has taken off, but many are objecting to the ethos behind it<\/p>\n<p>A social media debate has erupted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> over a trend among some women to dress and behave in a way that\u2019s \u201cgood for marriage\u201d, with detractors saying it discourages independence.<\/p>\n<p>China, like much of east Asia, is battling with a demographic crisis and young people increasingly choose to forgo marriage and children. Last year China officially recorded its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/17\/chinas-population-falls-for-first-time-in-more-than-60-years\">first decline in population for more than 60 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/10\/chinas-good-for-marriage-womens-trend-ignites-social-media-debate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Style featuring pastel makeup and modest clothing has taken off, but many are objecting to the ethos behind itA social media debate has erupted in China over a trend among some women to dress and behave in a way that\u2019s \u201cgood for marriage\u201d, with detract&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,236,238,235,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-digital-media","category-media","category-social-media","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228\/revisions\/58229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}