Dr. Leta Hong Fincher 洪理达
@LetaHong
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Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN, 10th Anniversary Edition and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China
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"In accessible, entertaining prose, Leftover Women guides the reader through the economic and social inequalities embedded in marriages in China that are so off-putting for increasingly educated young women." Thank you
@amyhawk_
for this write-up!
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CNN just said Biden is establishing himself as “the grown-up in the race”. How insulting for the fabulous women and people of color who are also running - a reminder of how political media is too male and too white.
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Just extraordinary scenes in Shanghai: “CCP step down, Xi Jinping step down”
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My God, this woman in Wuzhen, Zhejiang.
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My immigrant mom just voted early in New York! She was so excited and wanted to have her picture taken beneath the US flag afterwards. The accessible entrance was super-fast.
#VoteEarly
#IVoted
#AAPIVote
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I am one of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements. My story for
@theintercept
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Ever since Liu Yifei voiced support for Hong Kong police suppression of peaceful protesters, I've lost all interest in seeing Mulan. Too bad.
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Pay attention to all the young women on the front lines of China's protests, being the first to take action. Their discontent has been mounting for many years prior to this moment.
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My mom is very pleased that President
@BarackObama
thanked her for voting early!
#VOTE
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Tony Chung isn’t even old enough to buy a beer in the US
Breaking: Tony Chung, convenor of pro-independent Studentlocalism, is reportedly arrested for "inciting separatism" after national security officers searched his home (source: Facebook). Chung disbanded Studentlocalism prior to the implementation of the National Security Law.
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Interesting that many of the countries who handled the coronavirus outbreak well are headed by women:
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen setting a great example for the world on how governments should manage COVID-19.
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Peng Shuai disappeared after accusing China's former vice premier of sexually assault, but don't forget about feminist journalist and
#MeToo
activist Sophia Huang Xueqin, now in detention.
#WhereIsPengShuai
Journalist Sophie Huang Xueqin has been targeted after helping women in China report cases of sexual harassment and becoming a key figure in the country’s
#MeToo
movement. Her arrest exemplifies the Chinese authorities’ hostility towards journalists who dare to report the truth.
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Read this jaw-dropping investigation into Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell by
@PekingMike
@EricLiptonNYT
@keithbradsher
and
@suilee
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@BusyPhilipps
I have taken the Plan B pill 3 times after botched condom use in my early 20s. One time I was a grad student at Stanford and the university doctor at first refused to give me the pill, until I told him if I got pregnant I would definitely get an abortion
#youknowme
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Stunning details from defecting Chinese spy: “I influenced them with patriotism, guiding them to love the country, love the Party and our leaders, and fight back strongly against those...democracy activists in Hong Kong.” h/t
@BethanyAllenEbr
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White House now rewriting history just like China's Communist Party
After Trump was caught on-camera telling a reporter she “never” thinks during a Monday afternoon press conference, the White House moved to retroactively fix the president’s blunder by changing a word in the official transcript
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I’ve lived many years in China and Hong Kong, where citizens do not have the right to elect their leaders. American democracy is on the ballot today and I’m deeply moved to be able to cast my vote in New York.
#VoteEarlyDay
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"Between 400 and 750 men, women and children, from Syria, Egypt and Palestine were on board an overcrowded fishing trawler last week when it sank."
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This disturbing video is part of Beijing's effort to dilute the Uyghur population by pushing Han-Uyghur marriage.
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Many of my relatives in New York are here because the US welcomed refugees from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. We must provide refuge for those fleeing Afghanistan now.
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@BusyPhilipps
And when I say “botched condom use”, I mean that the man using the condom botched it up. Back when I took Plan B, it meant that I spent a whole night vomiting alone, but I didn’t want to risk getting pregnant when I wasn’t ready to take care of a child
#youknowme
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Oh My God! Thank you, Mr. President! ❤️🙏❤️🙏
This right here is what it's all about. Tell your mom thank you for voting, Leta.
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I love how President Tsai defied misogynistic attacks, leaned into her single, “cat lady” image in the
#Taiwan2020
campaign AND WON BY A LANDSLIDE! Pics h/t
@lnachman32
@billbirtles
#TaiwanElection
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Felicia Sonmez is an excellent reporter and brave survivor of sexual abuse but
@washingtonpost
just suspended her for pointing out something that is true. Meanwhile, actual sexual predators are still employed at major news organizations. This is why so many survivors stay silent.
This is absolutely outrageous.
You don’t even have to agree with
@feliciasonmez
tweets to agree that for her to be suspended for tweeting out a newsstory and then talking about being harassed for her tweets is an insane reaction.
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This is why authoritarian states don’t have press freedom
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Hallelujah! My mom just got her first dose of the covid-19 vaccine in New York. She wore lucky red for the happy occasion.
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Very relieved that my mom is with us again after a covid-19 outbreak at her assisted living center.
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Horrifying, must-read account of Chinese authorities abusing Muslim women in Xinjiang and specifically trying to stop them from reproducing. China’s crackdown has expanded from Uyghurs to Kazakhs and other ethnic groups. By
@Amie_FR
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This voting line in New York has curved around two blocks at 9am, an hour before the polls open.
#VoteEarlyDay
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"Women like me, who emerged from the camps, are no longer who we once were. We are shadows; our souls are dead." Haunting, essential piece by Gulbahar Haitiwaji with Rozenn Morgat.
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So pleased to announce that my new book,
#BetrayingBigBrother
: The Feminist Awakening in China, is in bookstores everywhere. Named one of top 8 political reads for fall 2018 by Vanity Fair. Publishers Weekly called it "fascinating" and "riveting"
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This great convo on the fetishization of Asian women reminds that Twitter has to get rid of that damn lotus flower on the StopAsianHate hashtag.
I appeared on NPR's 'All Things Considered,' to discuss the hyper-sexualization of Asian women with the great
@ailsachang
(whom I totally fangirled).
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THREAD. Xi Jinping’s deliberate and public shaming of his predecessor Hu Jintao - televised before the entire world - is chilling.
Early drama: Hu Jintao seen being led out soon after reporters are led into the main hall
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Just over two weeks since my mom has been with us following a covid outbreak at her assisted living center. She’s so happy and healthy she’s been composing (Chinese) poems. Here’s one for all the moms and daughters this Mother’s Day. 母亲节快乐！
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The Chinese Communist Party’s choreographed response to
#PengShuai
’s sexual assault allegations has backfired spectacularly. Instead of squashing a scandal, it is fueling China's feminist movement. My
@nytimes
piece.
#WhereIsPengShuai
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@PekingMike
@EricLiptonNYT
@KeithBradsher
@suilee
"McConnell’s political campaigns have received more than $1 million in contributions from Ms. Chao’s extended family, including from her father and her sister Angela, now Foremost’s chief executive."
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The Hong Kong teenager, known as Ms. X, "filed a complaint saying she was raped by four officers last September and later had an abortion, with DNA samples taken from the fetus." h/t
@ayhcheung
Hong Kong police are looking to arrest a teenager for allegedly giving false testimony after she accused officers of gang-raping her in custody, a move the woman described Wednesday as an attempt to discredit her --
@AFP
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This isn’t just a fashion issue. Vogue is undermining the authority of our first Black and Asian American woman Vice President at a time when millions of Republicans don’t recognize her as legitimate.
Some fashion magazine news....
1. The February Vogue cover featuring VP-elect Kamala Harris has been widely criticized on social media this evening
But according to a source familiar with the publication plans, this is not the cover that the Vice President-elect's team expected
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My mom is all in for
@ewarren
too! Very excited to go to Virginia and canvass for
#PresidentWarren
.
#AAPIsWithWarren
#LFG
! 🗽
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Look at all these brave high school girls. So much for Hong Kong’s sexist “gong nui” stereotype.
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It’s not just CNN: here is KPBS calling Biden a “grown-up”
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This is what authoritarian states like China do to force news orgs to toe the line. Beware of self-censorship in exchange for access.
Tonight
@SeanHannity
, who's not a journalist, agreed that "CNN, NYT, WaPo" and others "should not receive WH press credentials."
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Women heads of state are doing a great job at handling the pandemic. So why aren't there more of them? - my op-ed for
@CNN
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VP Kamala Harris is doing an incredible job, but "there's so much sexism and so much racism and it's so baked in to our mainstream media" Thank you,
@MollyJongFast
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But as
@MollyJongFast
notes, she’s not getting a fair shake from the press, and they seem hell bent on “doing her dirtier” than they did Hillary in 2016.
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“Genocide is an ugly word—but it should be applied to what’s happening in Xinjiang...” Read
@meifongwriter
’s piece about the mass sterilization of Uyghur women.
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Bloomberg’s lawyers treated me as though I were a piece of company property, using intimidation and threats to try to bully me into submission. I agonized over whether to sign the NDA and I remember feeling physically suffocated, as though my mouth were stuffed with cotton balls.
I am one of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements. My story for
@theintercept
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Yet another reference to Biden the “one grownup in the prospective field.” Sounds like the language may be coming straight from Biden’s campaign.
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“If we really trust Black Women, we’ve got to elect Black Women!”
#MarchForBlackWomen
#BelieveSurvivors
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The context you need when complaining about students’ bows and arrows
#StandWithHongKong
This is, uh, EXTREMELY alarming. Per
@Nrg8000
, an M16A2 rifle with an ACOG scope. Venturing a guess that's not loaded with your typical, less-lethal variety ammo.
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Me (pink hat) and my mom (sunglasses) in Beijing after Kissinger’s 1971 meeting with Zhou Enlai paved the way for Nixon’s visit and the normalization of US-China ties.
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Oh. My. God. My president
@HillaryClinton
just sent me this beautiful thank you note for my book
#BetrayingBigBrother
! Thank you
@MelissaLudtke
for the introduction!
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I've long argued that the best way to fight authoritarianism around the world is to support the increased participation of feminist women in politics and women's rights activism. This seems to be good for fighting pandemics too.
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Actually, many young people think they’ll regret it for the rest of their lives if they *don’t* take a stand now
#HongKong
Hong Kong’s commissioner of police described Wednesday’s demonstrations as “riots” and called on protesters to go home, warning that those who refused “might regret your decision for your entire life.”
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I'm excited to announce that
@BloomsburyBooks
is publishing a fully updated, 10th anniversary edition of my book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Coming November 2, pre-order now!
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I’m not retweeting videos where faces are identifiable - all of those young people will be in serious trouble.
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The pandemic has made me very sentimental so I’m sharing this wedding pic of my parents
#LovingDay
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Many countries led by incompetent, science-denialist men have led to catastrophic coronavirus outbreaks. A disproportionately large number of leaders who acted early and decisively were women. My
@CNN
op-ed:
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Washington Times calls Biden “the long-awaited grown-up”
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Women have borne the brunt of a likely severe increase in domestic violence under China’s zero-covid lockdowns. As I write in my book Betraying Big Brother, the Communist Party is unlikely to ever enforce the anti-domestic violence law…
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Happy 90th birthday to my formidable mom! She made it! 🎂🥳🎉
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Two weeks after my mom’s second covid vaccine shot, she’s doing well with zero side effects. If you’re eligible for the vaccine, please get it!
Hallelujah! My mom just got her first dose of the covid-19 vaccine in New York. She wore lucky red for the happy occasion.
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New Teen Vogue ed-in-chief is a 29-year-old black woman:
@ElaineWelteroth
. Shows you critical importance of diversity in media management.
Did not expect this exegesis of gaslighting and its relationship to current day politics from Teen Vogue
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Eg. this lone woman holding white paper at Tsinghua University, then joined by more young women, then a huge crowd (follow the thread).
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As a young journalist in 1996, I moved back to Hong Kong, my birthplace, and applied for a “3-star” Hong Kong ID card that would allow me to enter China without a visa because my mom is Chinese. The immigration officer there thought I was out of my mind and talked me out of it...
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My 87-year-old mom didn’t want to wear her favorite 棉袄jacket when we went out for lunch because she thought it made her a target.
Two Asian women -- 65 and 85 years old -- were stabbed in broad daylight while waiting for the bus in San Francisco. WHY. WHAT THE FUCK.
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@PekingMike
@EricLiptonNYT
@KeithBradsher
@suilee
"In China, the Chaos are no ordinary family. They run an American shipping company with deep ties to the economic and political elite in China, where most of the company’s business is centered."
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China has at times banned images of Winnie the Pooh for looking like Xi Jinping, so these government-released images of Peng Shuai are a distress signal.
#WhereIsPengShuai
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Ahem, I'm not poisoning your "girls". They are organizing themselves and I'm just writing about it.
@LetaHong
@ForeignAffairs
Please dont spread your feminism in China.
Chinese girls need to be girls, ladies and most of all mothers.
Dont make them to compete with men, as men are already having enough of competing and fight with men.
Man shall not fight with woman.
do not poison our girls.
Please leave!
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Today, that hope has been completely shattered and my heart breaks for all Hong Kongers. Please be careful.
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It's time to admit Hillary Clinton is an extraordinarily talented politician - by
@ezraklein
#HistoryMade
#ImWithHer
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No matter how brutally oppressed a man is by the state, he can always go home and take his anger out on a woman with impunity. No matter how low a man is in society, the woman attaches to him (whether wife or girlfriend) is even lower.
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“..only three years ago, I was an outspoken defender of the Chinese government’s polices, just like the students who marched on Sydney streets. But from that point on, I’ve became an outspoken defender of human rights.” Fascinating piece by
@xu_xiuzhong
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While helping my mom with summer cleaning, I came across this old picture of my grandpa, 阿公公. He died just one week after he and my grandma fled Vietnam in 1978.
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“The gift to Ms. Chao and Mr. McConnell from her father in 2008 helped make Mr. McConnell, the Republican majority leader, one of the richest members of the Senate.”
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Two organizers told me the words "feminism" and "MeToo" were not allowed in the gender program
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My new book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, is now available for pre-order!
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Came across this photo of my mom taking me as a toddler to visit the Great Wall in 1971. There are NO PEOPLE.
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Stop fetishizing Asian women and
@TwitterSupport
please stop using the lotus flower as your
#StopAsianHate
symbol.
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I implore Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who tag me, please, don't use Trump's image as your avatar. It's quite traumatizing for many Americans who had to fight so hard to protect our own democracy from being overthrown.
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China’s government wants families to have more children. Chinese women don’t. My piece for
@washingtonpost
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Striking that women make up less than 7 percent of heads of state around the world, yet the women-led countries in this thread are disproportionately successful in the fight against COVID-19.
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If you speak another language, please sign up with the National Voter Assistance Hotline to help protect the right to vote. The
#BidenHarris
campaign is looking for speakers of Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Hmong, Korean, Vietnamese and others:
#AAPIVote
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“And three decades worth of political donations have made [Chao’s] extended family a top contributor to the Republican Party of Kentucky, a wellspring of Mr. McConnell’s power.”
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because keeping the patriarchal family structure intact — even when the woman’s life is in danger — is central to political stability and Communist Party survival. By extension, violence against women is an inherent part of China’s patriarchal authoritarianism.
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