Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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China has a growing “manosphere”. But it isn't a copy of the one in the West. Economics is at the centre of much of the anger among young Chinese men.

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Asia Specific host Mariko Oi is joined by a senior journalist working on the Asia Specific podcast, Derek Cai. Also in the discussion are Dr Ling Tang, who teaches cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, and Yihuan Zhang, a graduate researcher at the University of Macau.

Together, they examine what the government's efforts to control the conversation reveal about power, gender and social stability in China, including the social contract of paying a bride's family when a couple get married, known as "bride price".

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