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Book Launch: Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

1,758 views · Published 18 October 2018 · 1:15:28 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: Center for Strategic & International Studies · 2018 · Education

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On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger movement of university students, civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban, educated women. In Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based women’s rights movement poses a unique challenge to China’s authoritarian regime today. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, 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.

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