Women Knowing China Men Rule Show Mao’s Half Sky Unfulfilled
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Li Rong had checked all the boxes for entry into China’s governing class.
A Communist Party member and head of student government for her department at Beijing Normal University, she had an offer to join the staff at a local party propaganda department upon graduation in 1999. She said no, avoiding government service in a country where few women rise to the top.