Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as Wei Tingting-one of the Feminist Five-wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest threat to China’s authoritarian regime today. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban, educated women. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. – Betraying Big Brother Summary and Thoughts Any major demographic shift as a result of women choosing to reject marriage and children-or perhaps even to rise up collectively against the Communist Party’s oppression-will inevitably reverberate throughout the global economy. Nearly one out of every five women in the world lives in China-more than 650 million women in total.
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