Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist and scholar who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Ms. Magazine, the BBC and CNN. She is the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China.
发表于2025-01-09
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图书标签: 女性 中国 社会 社会学 政治学 当代中国 海外中国研究 政治
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven 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 Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian regime today.
Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. 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.
Her narrative lacks a natural flow, and the book feels choppy. And she obviously has ill feelings toward China. That said, it's a necessary read.
评分作为Journalism来看1)文笔太差 2)夹杂了很多个人情感和观点;没有理论架构和仔细的论证也不能当作学术作品来看……最接近的文体可能是一篇超长op-ed?不伦不类的评价起来真是太尴尬了,也许可以给半颗感情星表示女权的主题很重要。。。
评分洪理达真的literally打破了我对斯坦福的学术训练能力的幻想,两本书两个极端,但是一致的烂。leftover那本书不加论证地发表了一堆骇人听闻的言论,这本书1-7章全纪实讲故事,没有一丁点理论建构或是分析,讲的还基本是翻微信公众号都差不多能知道的故事,narrative也不咋地。我看斯坦福不行。
评分中规中矩,面向「局外人」普及读物。要不是这本书,我差点儿把2017年的事都忘到脑后了。非要说这本书有什么特别之处,或许就是女权主义者应该断了指望老大哥帮你平权的念头——然而「老大哥靠不住」难道不是常识么?
评分洪理达真的literally打破了我对斯坦福的学术训练能力的幻想,两本书两个极端,但是一致的烂。leftover那本书不加论证地发表了一堆骇人听闻的言论,这本书1-7章全纪实讲故事,没有一丁点理论建构或是分析,讲的还基本是翻微信公众号都差不多能知道的故事,narrative也不咋地。我看斯坦福不行。
Betraying Big Brother 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书