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 in 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
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