‘It is a brutal anti-feminist crac • Table.Briefings

US author and journalist Leta Hong Fincher writes about the increasing pressure on women in Chinese society.

Chinese society continues to become more conservative; the Communist Party throws old progressive ways of thinking overboard and sends women back to the kitchen. This puts women under pressure, but will not succeed with young women, says Leta Hong Fincher, a journalist and author specializing in women’s rights, in an interview by Christiane Kuehl.

At the recent plenum of the Chinese Women’s Association, which only meets every five years, President Xi Jinping called for a new childbirth and family culture. Officials call for a higher birth rate. This is a new direction in the Communist Party, which has always waved the banner of equality, at least verbally. What’s going on?

‘It is a brutal anti-feminist crackdown’

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