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Getting Leftover Women a Seat at the Table: An Interview with Leta Hong Fincher
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Featured image of a cartoon on Sina, a popular Chinese blogging platform, shows a financially successful “leftover woman” rejecting a potential suitor by presenting her list of “marriage demands.” State propaganda claims that “leftover women” are too picky when choosing romantic partners.
Leta Hong Fincher’s book “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China” has swept through China hands and feminist circles alike.
The book, an extension of Fincher’s doctoral research at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, examines the housing property decisions of young Chinese couples. Pressured by state propaganda and family members to produce children and avoid being “leftover,” young, well-educat