Podcasts about feminist five

We dig into feminism in China, and the advocacy of China's Feminist Five.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week, LGBTQ student groups in China woke up to find their social media accounts abruptly shut down. It came after several feminist activists had similar shutdowns back in April.When Chinese activist Li Maizi saw another feminist being attacked online by nationalist trolls, she felt that she had to respond. After posting, she found her Weibo account shut down.Li is used to these attempts to silencer her. Six years ago, she and four other women were detained for more than a month for planning a protest against sexual harassment. They became known around the world as the “Feminist Five.”“What I can do is just watch a lot of people say you are trying to incite the state or trying to divide our country, which is really absurd,” she said. “So, I could still see what other people [posted insulting] me, but I couldn't make any comments.”Related: Reflections on the 100-year anniversary of China's Communist PartyFeminist activist Liang Xiaowen is based in the US. After internet trolls complained to Weibo about her account, the company shut it down and accused her of posting "discriminatory" content. “They just outright decided that what I was doing was illegal. I didn't even have an opportunity to speak for myself."Liang Xiaowen, Chinese feminist activist“They just outright decided that what I was doing was illegal,” she said. “I didn't even have an opportunity to speak for myself. It's not fair at all because I don't understand at all what [I posted] that is illegal. That is discriminatory.” Liang is a lawyer, so she reacted as any lawyer might — she sued Weibo, China's second-largest social media platform. She said that under China's new civil code, the courts should have seven business days to accept her case, but it's now been three months and she hasn't heard anything. “I can accept if I lose a case or if I win a case,” she said. “But I don't think it's fair, that the court is not even dealing with my case.”Related: TV show turns parents' anxiety over college exams in China into entertainment Gender equality was seen as important in the early days of China, author Leta Hong Fincher said. Her book “Betraying Big Brother” documents the feminist movement in the country.“The history of the Communist Party in China is actually very feminist,” she said. "So the People's Republic of China was founded on the principle of gender equality, which is enshrined in the constitution.” Hong Fincher said that these days, the feminist and LGBTQ rights movements have broad appeal among young people in China for a different reason.“It's fundamentally about young people's desire to live the kind of life they want to lead,” she said. "For most people, it's not about politics. It's about individual freedom. And so, that's a lot trickier for the Chinese government to handle.” Young people want to choose their own relationships and whether or not to have children. Just last month, the government changed the birth policy to allow couples to have three children.  But Chinese women's response was less than lukewarm.  Related: Many couples say they can't afford China's new three children policy“Feminism is perceived as such a threat by the Chinese government, because it's not just an ideology, it actually is affecting their birth rates."Leta Hong Fincher, author, "Betraying Big Brother"“Feminism is perceived as such a threat by the Chinese government,” she said, “because it's not just an ideology, it actually is affecting their birth rates. The government sees it as contributing to the larger problem of the aging of the population, and the shrinking of the workforce.” Hong Fincher said the recent attacks on feminist and LGBTQ activist social media accounts are tied in with a fear of foreign influence. Li Maizi and the rest of the Feminist Five were accused of being controlled by “hostile foreign forces” in 2015. Last month, Li Maizi said she attended a feminist cartooning workshop, but police interrogated the owner of the shop where it was held. “Once we finished the workshop,” she said, “we destroyed all the posters and meeting materials. So, we tear them up and we drop them into different dustbins. That is a fact, if you want to do something [like this] it's very risky. And you don't know if the police will take those as evidence to try to convict someone.” As for the LGBTQ student groups whose accounts have just been deleted, they are still figuring out what to do next. A woman who used to run activities for her university's LGBTQ group text-messaged The World about their reaction. She asked not to use her name or her voice for fear of getting in trouble with her school: “It's a real shame, we don't know if there's any legal action we can take. We didn't expect this to happen, so we didn't have a backup of all our content. The most important thing we need to do right now is recover past articles and then post [them] on a new account."LGBTQ student group leader, anonymous“It's a real shame, we don't know if there's any legal action we can take. We didn't expect this to happen, so we didn't have a backup of all our content. The most important thing we need to do right now is recover past articles and then post [them] on a new account," she wrote.  She said they will apply to their school administration to start their club again in the fall, but she worries it will be banned. All student clubs at public universities must be approved by the school administration and must get approval each year. Related: A new film explores the stories of 6 men from China who survived the Titanic sinking Prominent feminist and founder of Feminist Voices Lu Pin says the situation is grim, but that activists are not giving up. “As long as they are not treated equally by society,” she said, “feminists will help its followers who will never give up that determination, not because we ourselves are strong but because we have a very broad community.”And she says she believes that will withstand the crackdown. 

Last week, LGBTQ student groups in China woke up to find their social media accounts abruptly shut down. It came after several feminist activists had similar shutdowns back in April.When Chinese activist Li Maizi saw another feminist being attacked online by nationalist trolls, she felt that she had to respond. After posting, she found her Weibo account shut down.Li is used to these attempts to silencer her. Six years ago, she and four other women were detained for more than a month for planning a protest against sexual harassment. They became known around the world as the “Feminist Five.”“What I can do is just watch a lot of people say you are trying to incite the state or trying to divide our country, which is really absurd,” she said. “So, I could still see what other people [posted insulting] me, but I couldn't make any comments.”Related: Reflections on the 100-year anniversary of China's Communist PartyFeminist activist Liang Xiaowen is based in the US. After internet trolls complained to Weibo about her account, the company shut it down and accused her of posting "discriminatory" content. “They just outright decided that what I was doing was illegal. I didn't even have an opportunity to speak for myself."Liang Xiaowen, Chinese feminist activist“They just outright decided that what I was doing was illegal,” she said. “I didn't even have an opportunity to speak for myself. It's not fair at all because I don't understand at all what [I posted] that is illegal. That is discriminatory.” Liang is a lawyer, so she reacted as any lawyer might — she sued Weibo, China's second-largest social media platform. She said that under China's new civil code, the courts should have seven business days to accept her case, but it's now been three months and she hasn't heard anything. “I can accept if I lose a case or if I win a case,” she said. “But I don't think it's fair, that the court is not even dealing with my case.”Related: TV show turns parents' anxiety over college exams in China into entertainment Gender equality was seen as important in the early days of China, author Leta Hong Fincher said. Her book “Betraying Big Brother” documents the feminist movement in the country.“The history of the Communist Party in China is actually very feminist,” she said. "So the People's Republic of China was founded on the principle of gender equality, which is enshrined in the constitution.” Hong Fincher said that these days, the feminist and LGBTQ rights movements have broad appeal among young people in China for a different reason.“It's fundamentally about young people's desire to live the kind of life they want to lead,” she said. "For most people, it's not about politics. It's about individual freedom. And so, that's a lot trickier for the Chinese government to handle.” Young people want to choose their own relationships and whether or not to have children. Just last month, the government changed the birth policy to allow couples to have three children.  But Chinese women's response was less than lukewarm.  Related: Many couples say they can't afford China's new three children policy“Feminism is perceived as such a threat by the Chinese government, because it's not just an ideology, it actually is affecting their birth rates."Leta Hong Fincher, author, "Betraying Big Brother"“Feminism is perceived as such a threat by the Chinese government,” she said, “because it's not just an ideology, it actually is affecting their birth rates. The government sees it as contributing to the larger problem of the aging of the population, and the shrinking of the workforce.” Hong Fincher said the recent attacks on feminist and LGBTQ activist social media accounts are tied in with a fear of foreign influence. Li Maizi and the rest of the Feminist Five were accused of being controlled by “hostile foreign forces” in 2015. Last month, Li Maizi said she attended a feminist cartooning workshop, but police interrogated the owner of the shop where it was held. “Once we finished the workshop,” she said, “we destroyed all the posters and meeting materials. So, we tear them up and we drop them into different dustbins. That is a fact, if you want to do something [like this] it's very risky. And you don't know if the police will take those as evidence to try to convict someone.” As for the LGBTQ student groups whose accounts have just been deleted, they are still figuring out what to do next. A woman who used to run activities for her university's LGBTQ group text-messaged The World about their reaction. She asked not to use her name or her voice for fear of getting in trouble with her school: “It's a real shame, we don't know if there's any legal action we can take. We didn't expect this to happen, so we didn't have a backup of all our content. The most important thing we need to do right now is recover past articles and then post [them] on a new account."LGBTQ student group leader, anonymous“It's a real shame, we don't know if there's any legal action we can take. We didn't expect this to happen, so we didn't have a backup of all our content. The most important thing we need to do right now is recover past articles and then post [them] on a new account," she wrote.  She said they will apply to their school administration to start their club again in the fall, but she worries it will be banned. All student clubs at public universities must be approved by the school administration and must get approval each year. Related: A new film explores the stories of 6 men from China who survived the Titanic sinking Prominent feminist and founder of Feminist Voices Lu Pin says the situation is grim, but that activists are not giving up. “As long as they are not treated equally by society,” she said, “feminists will help its followers who will never give up that determination, not because we ourselves are strong but because we have a very broad community.”And she says she believes that will withstand the crackdown. 

Asia Art Tours recently had the great pleasure of speaking with Activists Xiaowen ( Twitter: @XiaowenLiang17) and Mimi on the brave, creative and boundry-erasing work of China's feminists. Our conversation covers how 米兔(Me Too) existed in China, how (and why) the Chinese State punishes Feminists, The challenge of discussing gender roles with older generations, and how activists both within China and in the Diaspora fight back against sexism, patriarchy and misogyny. Give these powerful women a listen and let us know what you think! Some amazing feminist groups to follow can be found below: @RedCanarySong @FreeXueqin (this broke after our podcast but long time activist Huang Xueqin was jailed. International pressure was crucial to helping the Feminist Five, and we should all show the same support for Huang) @MetooInChina @FeministChina(Show image is from their twitter) @allisongrabbit (Feminist whose husband was jailed for being a Labor Activist) @LetaHong (who wrote a fascinating text on Patriarchy and Feminist Activism in China). @yangyang_cheng (one of the more interesting writers from China)

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became international symbols, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. Journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher sees the Five as heralds of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online advocates prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women. Hong Fincher arrived at Town Hall to share perspectives from her book Betraying Big Brother, describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles—and revealing how such a 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 illuminated 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. Listen as Hong Fincher traced the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through #MeToo, and explored how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist and scholar who has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, Guardian, Ms. Magazine, the BBC and CNN. She is the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Presented by Town Hall Seattle as part of the 2019 Homecoming Festival. Recorded live in the Forum on September 22, 2019. 

On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Leta Hong Fincher, journalist, scholar and author of the books, Leftover Women and Betraying Big Brother.  Through these books, Leta chronicles the ways in which China's post economic reforms of the 1990s led to a state drive to incentivize marriage and its subsequent awakening of China's urban, educated women.  We speak with Leta about the struggles the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists have faced in “betraying Big Brother” and why and how the rise of a Chinese feminist consciousness is important to other feminist movements, from #MeToo to workers rights to leveraging the power of women's anger to building solidarity across borders.   During our conversation, Leta and I referenced the following resources: The Feminist Five The University of Hong Kong's study of censorship on WeChat The Kim Lee divorce case--"American Woman Gives Domestic Abuse a Face, A Voice, in China" How China's Anti-Domestic Violence Law is failing survivors Adrienne Maree Brown's Pleasure Activism the need in resistance movements and joy as a form of resistance --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Although such detainments usually last 24 hours, these women were detained 37 days, the legal limit for detention without bringing charges. Dubbed the Feminist Five, news of the women spread rapidly through social media. The author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher, uses the stories of these women to explore a much larger issue—that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) examines censorship and social media; the trauma of detention and its aftermath; the history of feminism in China; the feminist fight against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence; and, ultimately, the remarkable ways that feminist thinking spreads under the circumstances. Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter (@LDickmeyer). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Although such detainments usually last 24 hours, these women were detained 37 days, the legal limit for detention without bringing charges. Dubbed the Feminist Five, news of the women spread rapidly through social media. The author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher, uses the stories of these women to explore a much larger issue—that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) examines censorship and social media; the trauma of detention and its aftermath; the history of feminism in China; the feminist fight against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence; and, ultimately, the remarkable ways that feminist thinking spreads under the circumstances. Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter (@LDickmeyer). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Although such detainments usually last 24 hours, these women were detained 37 days, the legal limit for detention without bringing charges. Dubbed the Feminist Five, news of the women spread rapidly through social media. The author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher, uses the stories of these women to explore a much larger issue—that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) examines censorship and social media; the trauma of detention and its aftermath; the history of feminism in China; the feminist fight against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence; and, ultimately, the remarkable ways that feminist thinking spreads under the circumstances. Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter (@LDickmeyer). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Although such detainments usually last 24 hours, these women were detained 37 days, the legal limit for detention without bringing charges. Dubbed the Feminist Five, news of the women spread rapidly through social media. The author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher, uses the stories of these women to explore a much larger issue—that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) examines censorship and social media; the trauma of detention and its aftermath; the history of feminism in China; the feminist fight against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence; and, ultimately, the remarkable ways that feminist thinking spreads under the circumstances. Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter (@LDickmeyer). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Although such detainments usually last 24 hours, these women were detained 37 days, the legal limit for detention without bringing charges. Dubbed the Feminist Five, news of the women spread rapidly through social media. The author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher, uses the stories of these women to explore a much larger issue—that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) examines censorship and social media; the trauma of detention and its aftermath; the history of feminism in China; the feminist fight against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence; and, ultimately, the remarkable ways that feminist thinking spreads under the circumstances. Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter (@LDickmeyer). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Although such detainments usually last 24 hours, these women were detained 37 days, the legal limit for detention without bringing charges. Dubbed the Feminist Five, news of the women spread rapidly through social media. The author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher, uses the stories of these women to explore a much larger issue—that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) examines censorship and social media; the trauma of detention and its aftermath; the history of feminism in China; the feminist fight against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence; and, ultimately, the remarkable ways that feminist thinking spreads under the circumstances. Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history. Her research concerns nineteenth century US-China relations. She can be reached at laurie.dickmeyer@angelo.edu and on Twitter (@LDickmeyer). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

O feminismo na China atual é uma cultura complexa: por um lado era apoiada e incentivada por governos e, por outro, tolhida em atitudes que não condizem com as estratégias do Estado. Enquanto o aborto não é um tabu há décadas, era forçado para reafirmar a Lei do Filho Único junto com adoções, multas e planejamento familiar, que fez famílias escolherem quais filhos deveriam criar... e quais abririam mão. O cenário desproporcional criou problemas para cidades inteiras de solteiros com consequências que vão muito além de continuar uma linhagem.No episodio de hoje vamos discutir sobre as 679 milhões de mulheres na China moderna, movimentos feministas que incentivam voz e independência, economia e mercado, leis, feminicídio infantil, concubinato, feiras matrimoniais, agência de caça a amantes, preconceitos e papéis sociais de quase 1,4 bilhões de pessoas no mundo. Então, venha conhecer as singularidades do país onde, ao mesmo tempo, a mulher tem as escolhas, mas está presa a grandes pressões filiais na ONG de apoio do PQPCast!#MulheresPodcasters#AtivismoNaWeb#OPodcastÉDelas2019 #OPodcastÉDelas---**Links de referência**- Audi comercial in china https://youtu.be/UEKgxwBfw_c- Population in China from 2007 to 2017, by gender https://www.statista.com/statistics/251129/population-in-china-by-gender/- How one of China’s ‘Feminist Five’ is fighting for women’s rights, even after jail https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/detained-womens-rights-activist-wu-rongrong-chinas-feminist-five/article/2136233- Half the Sky, But Not Yet Equal - China’s Feminist Movement http://hir.harvard.edu/article/?a=13799- China's Leftover Men (Insight - YouTube) https://youtu.be/SwZ_4amMZ7M - China's aging population to reach peak of 400 million by 2055 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-12/13/content_27652831.htm- China Has the World’s Highest Rates of Infidelity https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-has-the-worlds-highest-rates-of-infidelity_2527334.html- China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/world/asia/china-marriage-affair-mistress.html- Feminism under pressure http://www.feminisminchina.com/#feminismunderpressure- Taking feminism to the street http://www.feminisminchina.com/#takingfeminismtothestreet- Introduction to China’s LGBT in 4 minutes https://youtu.be/G9djA4t0VY8 ---**Episódios relacionados do PQPCast**- PQPCast #222 - Por que a História do feminismo na China foi reprimida com pés de lótus? (Parte 1) #OPodcastÉDelas2019 http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/222-historia-feminismo-china- PQPCast #210 - Por que a História da maquiagem delineou a expressão da sociedade? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/210-historia-maquiagem- PQPCast #215 - Por que o mercado de beleza maquiou a autoestima com preconceitos sociais? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/215-maquiagem- PQPCast #213 - Por que livros feministas lutam contra relacionamentos abusivos na Dark Net fazendo maquiagem chinesa? (Indicações dezembro/2018) http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/2018/12/24/213-feminista-relacionamentoabusivo-darknet-maquiagem- PQPCast #135 - Por que bactérias canibais fazem piada em mandarim? (Indicações maio/2017) http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/135-indicmai17- PQPCast #128 - Por que as Princesas Disney contam a História do feminismo? #OPodcastÉDelas http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/128-disneyprincess- PQPCast #191 - Por que o feminismo é a mudança que a sociedade precisa? (Especial 4 anos) http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/191-feminismo- PQPCast #217 - Por que Colette maquiou Charmed na Cosmo Queens ouvindo Ava Max e Pablo Vittar? (Indicações janeiro/2019) http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/217-indicjaneiro19- PQPCast #193 - Por que as dietas da moda têm consequências além da saúde? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/193-dieta-moda- PQPCast #179 - Por que gordofobia não é motivo para piada? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/179-gordofobia---Assine nosso Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pqpcast**Twitter**- PQPCast: (@_pqpcast) https://twitter.com/_pqpcast- Thata: (@thata_finotto) https://twitter.com/thata_finotto- Natália: (@nahmatto) https://twitter.com/nahmattos- #PodcasterProcura: (@PodProcura) https://twitter.com/podprocura**Facebook**- Página De Por Quê? Pra PQP! https://www.facebook.com/pqpcast- Grupo Ouvintes do PQPCast https://www.facebook.com/groups/ouvintesdopqpcast/**Instagram**- PQPCast: (@pqpcast) https://www.instagram.com/pqpcast/**Telegram**- Canal #PodcasterProcura (@PodProcura) https://t.me/PodProcuraEdição: Andrey Mattos https://twitter.com/matttosApoio cultural: Kairós Soluções Empresariais http://kairoscorp.com.br/

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 Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students, civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban, educated women. Journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses a unique threat to China’s authoritarian regime today. Leta has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, BBC, CNN and others. She is the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for television feature reporting. Fluent in Mandarin, Leta is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University. She has often been quoted by news organizations such as BBC, CNN, Washington Post, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, TIME and The Economist on the subject of women and feminism in China. Named by the Telegraph as an “awesome woman to follow on Twitter,” Leta was a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University and recently moved to New York. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted and produced by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Today we explore the feminist movement in China. My guest is Leta Hong Fincher, an award-winning journalist and scholar. Leta argues that the jailing of the Feminist Five in 2015 was a turning point for the movement. Leta Hong Fincher recently published the book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, published by Verso (2018). www.freshedpodcast.com/fincher twitter:@freshedpodcast email: info@freshedpodcast.com

Stance explores PTSD and how people living in violent neighborhoods are developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at rates as high, if not higher, than veterans who served on the frontline in Iraq. With alarmingly high rates of violent crime in the UK capital, Stance wanted get to the heart of this issue and find out what needs to change. We also explore intergenerational trauma and how, if left untreated, PTSD can be transmitted to future generations. We hear from filmmaker and photographer Khalik Allah about his highly acclaimed new film, Black Mother. The New Yorker described Khalik Allah as 'one of the most original documentary filmmakers working today' and he was a cinematographer on Beyonce's Lemonade.  Finally, we speak to the thorn in government of China's side, activist and member of the famed Feminist Five, Li Maizi. We find out more about feminism and the LGBTQ community in China, and the impact of Government enforced censorship on movements like #metoo.

The life and times of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui 郭文贵 reads much like an epic play, so it is fitting that we have included with this podcast a dramatis personæ to explain the many characters in Guo’s story. Scroll to the bottom, below the recommendations, to follow along with them in order of appearance. New York Times journalists Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson have spent over a dozen hours with the turbulent tycoon at the New York City penthouse overlooking Central Park where he resides in exile, listening to his stories and carefully investigating his most scandalous claims. Mike has for years been a leading reporter on the intersection of money and power in elite Chinese politics, first at Bloomberg and then at the Times. Alex, as a reporter at the Financial Times and now the New York Times, has focused on covering hedge funds, emerging markets, and the world of finance. Are Guo’s myriad corruption allegations, which go as high as China’s anti-corruption chief, Wang Qishan 王岐山, credible? Is even Guo’s own life history verifiable? Who is he really, and why is he on this quest to unveil the shadowy world of Chinese elite politics? Mike and Alex don’t have all the answers, but they are two of the best people in the world to shed light on what is profound and what is puffery in Guo’s version of events. Recommendations: Jeremy: The Skeptics Society, a website that publishes articles to debunk pseudoscientific, health-related, and religious myths. Alex: Janesville: An American Story, by Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post. It tells how a town in Wisconsin had the General Motors plant leave in 2008, despite Obama’s promise that jobs would stay there. Mike: Betraying Big Brother, an upcoming book by his wife, Leta Hong Fincher, explains what happened to the Feminist Five and what their stories say about the rise of feminism and the control of women in China. Leta’s last book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, published in 2014, was on a similar subject. Kaiser: Beasts of No Nation, a Netflix special by Cary Fukunaga based on the book of the same title by Uzodinma Iweala. The story follows the life of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country.   Dramatis personæ: To read more on Guo Wengui himself, see our narrative explainer and a compilation of more recent news on Guo from SupChina and beyond. In order of mention in the podcast: Yue Qingzhi 岳庆芝, Guo Wengui’s wife, lives in New York, according to Guo. Yet she has not been seen in public nor by Mike and Alex, even though they have spent entire days at Guo’s penthouse.  Wang Qishan 王岐山, the leader of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). Li Keqiang 李克强, the current premier of China’s State Council, formerly a Party secretary in Henan Province where Guo claims to have met him. Wu Yi 吴仪 served in top ministerial positions negotiating trade and managing public health in the early 21st century. Guo claims to have developed a relationship with her back in Henan. Wu Guanzheng 吴官正 served as secretary for CCDI from 2002 to 2007. Ma Jian 马建, the now-jailed close associate of Guo who served as vice minister of State Security from 2006 to 2015. Liu Zhihua 刘志华, the former vice mayor of Beijing who was dismissed in 2006. Liu received a suspended death sentence for taking bribes of over 6 million yuan ($885,000) in October 2008. He Guoqiang 贺国强, the predecessor to Wang Qishan as secretary of the CCDI. Guo alleges that his son He Jintao 贺锦涛 had a financial stake in Founder Securities at the time Guo tried to muscle his way into the company (the Times has confirmed this). HNA Group, formerly Hainan Airlines, a politically connected business conglomerate that burst onto the public scene in 2016, scooping up foreign companies left and right. Hu Shuli 胡舒立, the editor-in-chief of business news and investigative outlet Caixin (disclosure: Caixin partners with SupChina on the Business Brief podcast). Li You 李友, Guo’s former business partner. In 2016, he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and fined 750 million yuan ($110 million) for insider trading.   Yao Mingshan 姚明珊, the wife of Wang Qishan. Meng Jianzhu 孟建柱, the current secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which controls the police and security services.   Xiao Jianhua 肖建华, another billionaire tycoon who had experience dealing at the top levels of the Chinese government. Xiao was apparently abducted by Chinese authorities in Hong Kong in late January 2017 and has not been seen in public since then. Zhang Yue 张越, a former provincial Party secretary in Hebei Province. Meng Huiqing 孟会青, a now-jailed former CCDI official. Fu Zhenghua 傅政华, the deputy minister of Public Security. Yao Qing 姚庆, grandson of revolutionary and former vice premier Yao Yilin 姚依林, and nephew-in-law of Wang Qishan. Guo’s two children, his son, Mileson Kwok 郭强 (Guo’s English name is Miles!), and his daughter, Guo Mei 郭美, whom Guo claims went to New York University with Ma Jian’s daughter. A “dissident-minder from Guobao” (Ministry of Public Security 国保 guó bǎo), identified later in the podcast as Sun Lijun 孙立军, one of two people Guo claims to have met with in Washington, D.C., in late May 2017. Amanda Bennett, the director of Voice of America (VOA), which aired an interview with Guo on April 19 that Guo and some VOA journalists complained was cut short.

Queering the Air's Lia Incognita talks to Wei Tingting, one of China's Feminist Five who was detained for over a month for a planned action against sexual harassment on International Women's Day 2015. It's her first interview with Australian media and we chat about the campaign for her release, international solidarity, and the current climate for transgender, lesbian and bisexual women in China. For more political and cultural background on contemporary feminism in China, check out Queering the Air's interview with University of Michigan Gender Studies professor Dr Wang Zheng in May 2015. We have genderqueer, ARIA-winning classical guitarist Tonié Field playing live in studio and talking about hir video project Corpus is Opus, bringing gender diversity into classical music.We also hear Irish activist Aoife Cooke talk to Ania from 3CR's Tuesday Breakfast about the successful campaign for marriage equality in Ireland.

We chat about feminism and LGBT activism in China following the Free Chinese Feminists campaign which successfully pressured the Chinese government to release 5 young women who had been detained for 37 days for a planned action on sexual harassment. Lia speaks with Dr Wang Zheng of University of Michigan, who was active in the campaign and one of the founders of Chinese Society for Women’s Studies (海外中华妇女学学会) back in the early 90s.

Hilary Klein discusses her new book, COMPAÑERAS: Zapatista Women's Stories.  We talk about the origins of the EZLN, its evolution over 30 years of struggle and institution building, and how well it realizes its objectives of full gender equality.  Klein lived in Chiapas for six years and interviewed dozens of women, from military commanders to civilian leaders to cooperative members.     Also: The San Francisco International Film Festival is coming up.  We talk with program director Rachel Rosen and filmmaker Jenni Olson.  And we speak with Chinese feminist Feng Yuan about the arrest and release of the Feminist Five – five young feminists held for over a month for planning International Women's Day actions around the country. The post Womens Magazine – April 20, 2015 appeared first on KPFA.