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The Chained Mother of Eight in Feng County of Xuzhou Prefecture in Jiangsu Province has caught the media attention since January 2022. Many commentaries pointed out the problems in many layers, including human trafficking, enslavement of women, and corruption of officials. This talk examines one of the root problems – the shortage of girls due to the son-preference cultural tradition. Census data and GIS methods are used to analyze the imbalance of sex ratios that vary widely in China’s counties. Does religion make any difference, if so, by which religion and in what ways? This talk also introduces the open-access book Atlas of Religion in China (https://brill.com/view/title/36038) and the online resource of OSAGE-China (https://globaleast.org/osage) , and presents the key findings of a study titled “Religious Geography and County-Level Sex Ratios in China.” This talk was given on Thursday, March 24, 4:30–5:30pm as a Chinese Studies Colloquium, Spring 2022, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University. Fenggang Yang is Professor of Sociology, the founding Director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University.