Taylor Swift Wows Chinese Women Tired of Xi’s Conservative Era
- Fans praise pop star for raising gender issues, empowerment
- China promotes traditional role for women to boost birth rates
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Women belting out feminist lyrics that denounce gender inequality. Teenagers in glittery dresses dancing to songs celebrating LGBTQ freedoms. The number 1989 — the most sensitive year in modern Chinese politics — displayed in huge type on the theater screen.
This was the scene at a recent showing of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour concert movie in Beijing, as the US pop juggernaut packs theaters across the Asian nation with young, female audiences.