Summary: In LEFTOVER IN CHINA: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower [W. W. Norton & Company; February 13, 2018; $26.95 hardcover], American journalist Roseann Lake chronicles the lives of these women, whom she first met during her years working as a television reporter in Beijing. Throughout China’s booming city centers, Lake saw passionate, highly educated young Chinese women acquiring wealth, property, and a measure of independence in record numbers. Yet while her female colleagues ascended in their careers, many struggled to find suitable romantic partners, in spite of an overwhelmingly large male population and immense traditional, parental, and societal pressures towed.
