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How China is legally recognising same-sex couples, but not empowering them

Xu Chen, Wilfred Yang Wang

Published : 2019

Abstract

Homosexuality has been a controversial topic across the legal and moral domains in China. Homosexual acts were officially decriminalised in 1997, but Chinese laws have yet to properly recognise or protect same-sex couples in the forms of marriage or de facto relationships.

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