Love Stories in China

The Politics of Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Sun, Wanning; Yang, Ling

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how political, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are (re)shaping the meanings of love and intimacy in China's public culture. The book provides deep insights into how the huge transformation of China over the last four decades has impacted the micro lives of ordinary Chinese people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780367224691
• ISBN-10: 0367224690
• Artikelnr.: 57457765

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Marriage in trouble
Chapter 1 Love stories in contemporary China: cultural production in the new millennium
Wanning Sun and Ling Yang
Chapter 2 Is it better to cry on a BMW or laugh on a bicycle? Television shows
marriage and the production of class in urban China Roberta Zavoretti
Chapter 3 Successology for women: relationship experts and sociobiological discourses Haiping Liu
Chapter 4 Holding virtual hands: an ethical practice against male infidelity in digital China
Yi Zhou
Section 2: Rural-urban inequality
Chapter 5 'Phoenix men': changing representations of urban-rural marriages in contemporary China
Guoqing Zheng
Chapter 6 Negotiating class and the rural-urban divide in urban homes: configuring the maid in literature and popular culture Yanwen Li
Chapter 7 Wounded masculinities: the subaltern between online longings and offline realities Tingting Liu
Section 3: Gender
race and class
Chapter 8 Women in rural romantic love: gender politics in television dramas
Huike Wen Chapter 9 'Tiny Times'
persistent love: gender
class and relationships in post-1980s bestsellers Ling Yang Chapter 10 The 'social factory' of China's male 'virtual lovers' Chris K. K. Tan and Zhiwei Xu
Chapter 11 International romance: changing discourses of Chinese-foreign intimacy in the decades of economic reforms Pan Wang
Section 4: Queer voices
Chapter 12 The emerging 'national husband': queer female fantasy in popular culture Jamie J. Zhao
Chapter 13 'Revolution plus love?' Online fandom of the television drama series The Disguiser Xiqing Zheng
Chapter 14 A love story: Li Yuchun's fans and contemporary Chinese singledom Maud Lavin