Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, Verso Books, 2018.Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Zed Books, 2014.She has worked at Radio Free Asia (1996–1997), Asia Television (1997–1998), CNBC Asia (1998–1999), and Voice of America (2000–20–2009), and she has written for the New York Times, Washington Post and The Guardian. Leftover Women The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China Leta Hong Fincher (Author) Share Leftover Women The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China Leta Hong Fincher (Author) FormatSee all 6formats Paperback21.9519.75Hardback110.0099.00Ebook (PDF)19.7515.80Ebook (Epub & Mobi)19.7515.80 Paperback21.95 Hardback110.00 Ebook (PDF)19. For her reports on women and feminism in China, Fincher won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. Leta Hong Fincher is author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China Leftover Women and The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. She graduated from Tsing Hua University with the first PhD for sociology awarded to an American.įincher has written for several publications about feminism, especially in China. China is propagated through state media news. As a child, she spoke Mandarin at home with her mother.įincher attended Harvard University, where she completed her bachelor's degree in 1990, and later Stanford University for her master's degree in East Asian Studies. In this new book, Leta Hong Fincher argues that a discourse around young, unmarried leftover women in. The leftover women media campaign pushes women to lower their standards when choosing a partner, so they will marry some of the tens of millions of surplus men, who are seen as a threat to. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Zed Books.

Her mother, a linguist, and her father, a historian, were both Chinese scholars, and she spent a significant portion of her childhood travelling to and from China. Leta Hong Fincher is an American journalist, feminist and writer. She grew up in Canberra after her parents received tenures at Australian National University. Leta Hong Fincher is an American journalist, feminist and writer.įincher was born in British Hong Kong, to a Chinese-American mother with roots in Xiamen, Fujian, and a European-American father.

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