The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Ladies
In Foreign Policy, Christina Larson looks at the phenomenon of “leftover women,” or women who remain single in their late 20s. She asks why, with China’s well-documented gender imbalance, women are...
View ArticleChina’s ‘Leftover’ Women
In the International Herald Tribune, Leta Hong Fincher translates articles posted on the website of the All-China Women’s Federation, the state agency tasked with “protecting” women’s rights and...
View ArticleTop Ten Myths About China in 2012
At The New Yorker, Evan Osnos suggests that 2012 may have marked a turning point in the erosion of accepted myths about China. Ten, he says, have collapsed over the past year: myths about government...
View ArticleBringing a Hired Love Interest Home for the Holidays
Al Jazeera’s The Stream reported today on a global trend toward women marrying later and advancing their own education and careers before creating a family. The show focuses on India and China, where,...
View ArticleRejecting the “Leftover Women” Label
As the marriage market in China grows more competitive due to a surplus of men, some Chinese single ladies are starting to challenge the label of “leftover women”, a term used to describe unmarried...
View ArticleTeaching “Leftover Women” to Find an Elite Husband
At Daily Life, Monica Tan tells of her experience alongside scores of China’s “leftover women” (剩女)—the ranks of successful women in China who choose to remain single amid societal pressure and a...
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Author Addresses China’s “Leftover Women”
The issue of so-called leftover women, or women who remain unmarried in their late 20s, is again in the media spotlight thanks to a bilingual book by Joy Chen titled, “Do Not Marry Before Age 30.”...
View ArticleWhat is Real Beauty in China?
Beauty products company Dove is taking their “Real Beauty” campaign to China. The campaign aims “to challenge beauty stereotypes and invite women to join a discussion about beauty.” It has been rolled...
View ArticleChina’s ‘Leftover Women’ Choosing to Stay Single
For CNN’s “On China,” Tsinghua University scholar Leta Hong Fincher interviews Chinese women who are upending the stereotype of “leftover women,” by choosing to remain single into their 30s: Men are...
View ArticleTired Of Being Alone?: Singles’ Day Offers A Fix
At Foreign Policy Liz Carter explains that while lonely Americans “have Reddit and cats,” China has Singles’ Day on Nov. 11, “Double 11,” a holiday marked by a surge of online matchmaking and shopping:...
View ArticleAn American Tackles Domestic Violence In China
An excerpt from journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher’s upcoming book Leftover Women explores the hurdles of reporting domestic violence in China through the story of American Kim Lee, a woman who...
View ArticleWomen Shut Out of Wealth Accumulation
In an interview with Shanghaiist, Leta Hong Fincher discusses the way China’s real estate boom has shortchanged women, the main focus of her Tsinghua PhD dissertation: [...I]n the interviews that I did...
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CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Leta Hong Fincher
Leta Hong Fincher’s first book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed Books), sheds light on the issue of women’s rights through the lens of home ownership and marital...
View ArticleThis Week on CDT, April 28, 2014
CDT interviews Leta Hong Fincher about her new book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Her book not only looks at the state of women’s rights in China today, but also...
View ArticleWomen’s Rights In China: A Panel Discussion
At China Radio International, in an almost hourlong podcast, Leftover Women author Leta Hong Fincher, Former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles Joy Chen, and UN Women China program manager Julia Broussard...
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Leta Hong Fincher on Women in Today’s China
On her blog China Law and Policy, Elizabeth Lynch interviews Leta Hong Fincher about her book “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Asian Arguments).” In Part One of the...
View ArticleIn China’s Modern Economy, a Retro Push Against Women
In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow and Michael Forsythe report on a regressive attitude toward women in business in China, despite economic growth which has benefited some women: [..T]he...
View ArticleDebating the Reproductive Rights of Single Women
A longstanding regulation that prohibits single women from freezing their eggs gained renewed attention after actress Xu Jinglei recently announced that she had traveled to the U.S. to freeze her eggs...
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