Join us in our second-floor reading room for the launch of the 10th anniversary edition of the landmark work Leftover Women. Award-winning author and researcher Leta Hong Fincher will be appearing in conversation with Shiamin Kwa, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College.
Leftover Women shone 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.
The updated edition includes new interviews and 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. To reserve your copy for the event, use the Add to Cart button on this page.
Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and others. As a long-time TV and radio journalist based in China, she won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Cowan Award for Humanitarian Reporting and other journalism honors for her reporting. Leta’s previous book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (2018), was named a Best Book of 2018 by Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Interrupted, Bitch Media and Autostraddle. The New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its “essential reads on feminism” in 2020.
Shiamin Kwa is Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature and Culture at Bryn Mawr College. In 2019, she received Bryn Mawr’s Rosalyn R. Schwartz Teaching Award. She is the author of Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend (with Wilt Idema, 2010), Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei’s Four Cries of a Gibbon (2013), Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century for the Comics Studies (2020), and Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic (2023).