Unmarried Chinese women have found yet another way to get over the stigma of being single: Flee to the West and get another degree

• Some single Chinese women in their 30s are escaping the country to pursue higher education.
• These women say they believe getting another degree in the West has given them freedom.
• "37 years old is not an end for me, but a new beginning of my second life," one woman wrote on Xiaohongshu.

Some single Chinese women — fatigued from the social stigma of being unmarried and childless — are opting to run away altogether.

These women — mostly millennials in their mid to late 30s — are taking to the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu to talk about their great escape to the West.