When I first came to Beijing inMarch 2011 to work for ChinaRadio International, the state-run multi-language radio station, I lacked enoughknowledge about the present conditionof the women in China. The perceptionthat I had about the women in theworld's most populous country werelargely dominated by what I, like manyother Bangladeshis, read in booksduring our young age. The books weremostly based on situation prevailingmany years back and obviously devoidof the condition of today's China.The books focused more on imperial-era traditions, which bar the womenfrom working outside their houses andhaving official positions, than on theprogress that the country has attainedin protection and promotion of womenrights after the establishment of thePeople's Republic of China in 1949.