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  • Betraying Big Brother

  • The Feminist Awakening in China
  • By: Leta Hong Fincher
  • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
  • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Betraying Big Brother

By: Leta Hong Fincher
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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A feminist movement clashing with China's authoritarian government

On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 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.

©2018 Leta Hong Fincher (P)2019 Tantor
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A Brilliant Report...

...tragic, yet hopeful, filled with true heroism, yet a sequence of stories that should make any objective reader's blood boil at the shameless efforts of a mammoth government and its party bosses to suppress China's feminist movement, and all for the worst imaginable reasons...lift the curtain, read and learn, parse the propaganda, surveillance, endless harassment by overweaning domestic security services intent upon enforcing a make- believe vision that the People's Republic of China is a normal state and the Communist Party of China has the interests of the Chinese people genuinely at heart.

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