In 2017, she cofounded Chinese Feminist Collective, an innovative organization striving to support women’s movement in China from the overseas. Since 2012, she has been devoted to supporting the activism of young feminists across China. In 2009, she founded Feminist Voices, China’s largest new media platform on women’s issues. Lü Pin （吕频）is a Chinese feminist activist focusing on strategic advocacy to combat gender-based discrimination and violence. Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms.
Her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China(Zed 2014) is widely acclaimed. Leta Hong Fincher is a scholar, journalist and author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018). In this event moderated by Nancy Yun Tang ’19, feminist activist leader Lü Pin (吕频) and journalist-scholar Leta Hong Fincher will discuss the challenges faced by young Chinese feminist activists, their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” and how their movement against authoritarianism and patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. The “Feminist Five” became a global cause célèbre, as they symbolize a larger Chinese feminist movement and an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women.
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days.
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