Half the sky: the woman’s place in Chinese society

Chairman Mao famously said that ‘women hold up half the sky’. It was a revolutionary statement in a feudal society (though it did help him, very much, with a labour shortage). But the recent high-profile murder of a young vlogger at the hands of her ex-husband has reignited a national conversation – have Chinese women every truly held up half the sky?

With Leta Hong Fincher, author of Betraying Big Brother.