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Digital Romance and Intimacy Transformations among Chinese Rural Migrant Labourers book cover

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Digital Romance and Intimacy Transformations among Chinese Rural Migrant Labourers

By Tingting Liu, Chris K. K. Tan Copyright 2027
168 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What are the intimate aspirations and everyday romantic lives of those who sustain China’s ‘world factory’? This book explores how digital dating platforms are reshaping relationships, partner selection and marriage among rural-to-urban migrant workers — a demographic that is often overlooked in studies of digital life. Drawing on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Pearl River Delta... Read more

1. Background and Theoretical Framework  2. Digital Dating Fields in ‘Early’ Platform China: A Stratified but Open Era  3. Intimacy under Calculation  4. Rural Migrant Men Being ‘Left Over’ and Their Practices of Caring  5. Performing Ideal Wifehood in the Digital Age  6. Queer Migrant Women in the Cracks  7. Changes and Continuities in Digital China

Biography

Tingting Liu (PhD University of Queensland)  is a Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research explores unconventional and often overlooked domains, uncovering engaging human stories through studies of dating, gaming, and cross-cultural communication.

Chris K. K. Tan (PhD University of Illinois) is an Assistant Professor at College of Arts and Sciences, VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam. He currently researches the anthropology of new media in China and Vietnam.

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