Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender
inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on women in China continue to experience a
dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of
the Xi Jinping era. Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the
broader problems with China's economy politics and development that lie behind them. This
updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since
the book's original publication including the new three child policy the growth in online
feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent.
