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. Paul Tsai China Center Attachments the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. She now resides in Albany, New York and follows the feminist movement in China closely. In 2017, she cofounded Chinese Feminist Collective, an innovative organization striving to support women’s movement in China from the overseas. Since 2012, she has been devoted to supporting the activism of young feminists across China.
In 2009, she founded Feminist Voices, China’s largest new media platform on women’s issues. Lü Pin （吕频）is a Chinese feminist activist focusing on strategic advocacy to combat gender-based discrimination and violence. Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms.
Her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China(Zed 2014) is widely acclaimed. Leta Hong Fincher is a scholar, journalist and author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018).
In this event moderated by Nancy Yun Tang ’19, feminist activist leader Lü Pin (吕频) and journalist-scholar Leta Hong Fincher will discuss the challenges faced by young Chinese feminist activists, their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” and how their movement against authoritarianism and patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. The “Feminist Five” became a global cause célèbre, as they symbolize a larger Chinese feminist movement and an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women. On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days.
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