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  • Love and Romance in China

    From Comrades and Partners to AI Lovers

    by Pan Wang ...
    Love and Romance in Chinaexamines love, affection, and emotions in China from Maoist to contemporary China, focusing on the intersections with politics, economics, gender, class, race and technology.From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the end of the Cultural Revolution, political ideology and class struggle dominated everyday life, and love was subordinated to the communist ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Arranged Marriage

    The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change

    by Péter Berta, Asha L. Abeyasekera, Marian Aguiar, Shalini Grover, Christina Julios, Serena Petrella, Noorfarah Merali, Raksha Pande, Yafa Shanneik, Schirin Vahle0, Pan Wang1, Sima Zalcberg Block2, Helena Zeweri3 ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • China's Outward Foreign Direct Investments and Impact on the World Economy

    by Pan Wang ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book studies the impact of China's outward foreign direct investment on the world economy. It uses both case studies and modeling approaches to study how China's investments have affected the rest of the world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Love and Marriage in Globalizing China

    by Wang Pan ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    As China globalizes, the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese--foreign marriages have profound implications for China’s cultural identity. This book, based on extensive original research, outlines the different types of Chinese--foreign marriage, and divorce, and the changing scale and changing patterns of such marriages, and divorces, and examines ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The New Rich in China

    Future rulers, present lives

    Edited by David Goodman ...
    Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Diasporic Hallyu

    The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

    by Kyong Yoon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular ... Read more

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  • Tongzhi Living

    Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China

    by Tiantian Zheng ...
    Tongzhi, which translates into English as “same purpose” or “same will,” was once widely used to mean “comrade.” Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity.Tongzhi Living, the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in the metropolitan ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China is a study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, Eric Ma traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed mainland cities and explores changing perceptions as China grows in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Creative Industries in China

    Art, Design and Media

    by Michael Keane ...
    Series series China Today
    Creative industries in China provides a fresh account of China’s emerging commercial cultural sector. The author shows how developments in Chinese art, design and media industries are reflected in policy, in market activity, and grassroots participation.Never has the attraction of being a media producer, an artist, or a designer in China been so enticing. National and regional governments offer ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Making Our Own Destiny

    Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo

    by Lynne Y. Nakano ...
    In East Asia’s largest cities, hundreds of thousands of women remain single into middle age and beyond, giving rise to a demographic transformation with profound implications for their societies. Labeled in the media as “loser dogs” and “parasites” in Japan and “leftover women” in mainland China and Hong Kong, single women in East Asia are criticized for being choosy, selfish, and overly ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Popular China

    Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society

    Edited by Richard P. Madsen, Paul G. Pickowicz, Perry Link ...
    Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging from domestic violence to homosexuality to political corruption. The culture of popular China ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Sexuality and the Rise of China

    The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China

    by Travis S. K. Kong ...
    In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Drawing on ninety life stories, Kong’s transnational queer sociological approach shows the complex interplay between personal biography and the dramatically changing social institutions ... Read more

    $18.69 USD