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.
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.
發表於2025-03-30
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圖書標籤: 女性 中國 社會 社會學 政治學 當代中國 海外中國研究 政治
2.5/5 Fincher would benefit if she bothered to hire a few editors for advice, because her writing appears tediously dry and repetitive, often without delving deeper into the 'history side' of the issue, not to mention that the feminism discussed in this book seems somewhat naive and strategically flawed in excluding men from the conversation.
評分要深度沒深度,要文筆沒文筆。。。這個敘述方式真的不吸引人,還不如報紙專欄啊。。。
評分作為Journalism來看1)文筆太差 2)夾雜瞭很多個人情感和觀點;沒有理論架構和仔細的論證也不能當作學術作品來看……最接近的文體可能是一篇超長op-ed?不倫不類的評價起來真是太尷尬瞭,也許可以給半顆感情星錶示女權的主題很重要。。。
評分非常非常重要的記錄,然而寫得真的是差強人意。五顆星給人和事。一星半給寫作本身。
評分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.
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