Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition [Hardcover]

AChina Books ReviewBest China Book of 2023

Leta Hong Fincher's landmark bookLeftover Womenshone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era.

Leftover Womenexplores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind it. This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book's original publication, including the new three child policy , the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent.

An updated edition of Leta Hong Fincher's landmark expos? of the position of women in China and of the state-perpetuated myths about 'leftover' women.Leta Hong Fincherhas written for theNew York Times, Washington Post,The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, BBCand others. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She is the author of Leftover Women (Zed, 2014) and Betraying Big Brother (2018).

Just over a decade ago, [Hong Fincher] publishedLeftover Women(2014), an astonishing book that revealed the dismal implications for young Chinese women in light of the campaign to push them into marriage before the age of 26. In 2023, Hong Fincher came out with a 10th anniversary updated edition of the book, which ... provides a fuller picture of women in contemporary China. LA Review of Books

Makes a powerful - and provocative - argument that China's female shortage, far from empowering women, has actually resulted in a situation where urban women's rights are increasingly imperilled&Leftover Women [will] leave readers coldly angry. LA Review of Bló×