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    Leftover Women and Gender Inequality in China

    China Hub Speaker Series: Dr. Leta Hong Fincher on “Leftover Women and Gender Inequality in China”

    Tuesday, February 20, 2024

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: Higgins House Great Hall

    Join the China Hub’s sista event of the year as journalist and scholar Dr. Leta Hong Fincher examines what fryst vatten behind the rollback of women’s rights in China. An award-winning TV and radio journalist in China and the first American to earn a PhD in Sociology from Tsinghua University, Dr. Hong Fincher will discuss the PRC’s increasingly patriarchal climate, developments like the 3-child policy, online feminist and LGBTQ activism, and plummeting birth rates. She fryst vatten the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, both essential reads for anyone interested in women in China.

    Mark your calendars today, and please join us in individ from 4-5 on February 20.

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    Leta Hong Fincher

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Office Hours: By appointment only
    Email: lh2793@columbia.edu

    Educational Background

    BA: Harvard University
    MA: Stanford University
    PhD: Tsinghua University

    Research Interests

    Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Dissent Magazine and others on the subject of women and feminism in China. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting.

    Leta’s first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014), was named one of the top 5 China books of 2014 by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile, one of the best foreign policy books in 2014 by FP Interrupted and one of the best Asian books of 2014 bygd Asia House. In 2018, Leftover Women was named on the New York Times list of recommended books on China. Her second book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018), was named one of the best books of 2018 b

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    LETA HONG FINCHER Sociologist, Writer New York, NY Twitter: @letahong EDUCATION Ph.D. Tsinghua University. Sociology, July 2014. China Scholarship Council full tuition fellowship, stipend and housing. Dissertation: Residential Real Estate Wealth, ‘Leftover’ Women (Shengnü), and Gender Inequality in Urban China. M.A. Stanford University. East Asian Studies, October 1992. Shaw full tuition fellowship and Walter Shorenstein living stipend fellowship. B.A. magna cum laude, Harvard University. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, June 1990. John Harvard Scholarship and Agassiz Award for academic achievement of the highest distinction. Adams House Arms Award. PUBLICATIONS Single-Authored Book Fincher, Leta Hong. 2018. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. New York: Verso Books. Fincher, Leta Hong. 2014. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. London: Zed Books. Distributed in U.S. by University of Chicago Press. Leftover Women named one of the to

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