Naked bodies and interviews among Chinese women

“Interviewing for academic purposes in China is quite new to most people. Generally, when an interview is mentioned, people would imagine being visited by reporters and then seeing their words being published in the media.
[…]
Xinran, a Chinese journalist who recorded several women’s narratives, used a metaphor to illustrate the difficulty of asking Chinese women to talk about themselves – ‘For Chinese women, the naked body is an object of shame, not beauty. They keep it covered. To ask them to let me interview them would be like asking them to take off their clothes’”


Liu Jieyu, Gender and Work in Urban China.