ABSTRACT
The Women’s Media Watch Network (Funü chuanmei jiance wangluo) developed from the meeting of international and the Chinese women’s movements. Economic reforms and the opening of China to the outside world have created vast possibilities for women’s media to develop. This initial idea was made more definite and substantial with our participation in the Women’s Conference and the non-governmental organization Forum. The quantity, variety, competitiveness, readership and appreciation of women’s media have all reached unprecedented levels. The Conference slogan ‘Looking at the World through Women’s Eyes’, visible everywhere during the conference, boosted our determination to correct collectively the many mistakes in the media’s reports on women. The Women’s Media Watch Network is one result of the Fourth World Conference on Women being held in Beijing. However, the limitation of resources means that the functioning of the Network is currently far from able to meet its mission in the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries.
