Betraying Big Brother by Leta Hong Fincher

The horrors that people go through for just a glimmer of hope. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness through online campaigns resembling #MeToo, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as Wei Tingting-one of the Feminist Five-wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention.

In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest threat to China’s authoritarian regime today. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban, educated women. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. In 2020, New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its 'essential reads on feminism'.How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement threatens China's authoritarian government Follow her on Twitter anniversary edition of Leftover Women out November 2023.īetraying Big Brother named one of the best books of 2018 by Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Interrupted, Bitch Media and Autostraddle. Named by the Telegraph as an 'awesome woman to follow' on social media, she lives in New York. She is the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her reporting on China. Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist and scholar who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. In 2020, New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its 'essential reads on feminism'.

Betraying Big Brother named one of the best books of 2018 by Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Interrupted, Bitch Media and Autostraddle.

Follow her on Twitter 10th anniversary edition of Leftover Women out November 2023.

Betraying Big Brother by Leta Hong Fincher