It’s the last week of the Winter Olympics and one controversy that refuses to go away concerns Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai. Last year Peng made sexual assault allegations against a former Chinese party leader and then went missing for weeks.
Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China,” explains why she believes the Chinese Communist Party’s carefully managed response to Peng’s allegations “is fueling China’s feminist movement.”
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