Local Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts to encourage women to consider having more children, including through controversial cold-calling campaigns.

British photographer Adrian Bradshaw arrived in Beijing in 1984 ... of the granny who was born at a time when it was normal for women to be intentionally crippled with bound feet.

Apart from the All China Women' s Federation and the Chinese Child Welfare Committee, the majority of the buildings in the street are residential ... fashionable place in Beijing from as early ...

In addition, many women are increasingly reluctant to marry and have children, putting their own life goals ahead of what Beijing and relatives want, a situation that has prompted the Communist ...