1st Edition

Gender, Intimacy, and Class in a Changing China The Individual and Social Change

Edited By Fiona Gill Copyright 2026
202 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the varieties of continuity and change evident in the development of contemporary Chinese society’s attitudes and practices related to gender, intimacy, and class. By focusing on innovative aspects of gendered experiences in contemporary China, this book reveals the developing trends in gender, including but not limited to social media based digital feminism, patriarchy... Read more

Introduction: Gender, Intimacy, and Class in a Changing China: The Individual and Social Change

Fiona Gill

1. Gender Equality and ‘Independent Men’: Digital Feminism and Online Misogyny

Shuhan Chen

2. Gendered Symbolic Meaning and Social Structure: Tea Making in Chaozhou 

Jinghong Zhang

3. Homohysteric engagement and male bonding: Male Chinese sports fans and athletic bromances

Altman Yuzhu Peng, Fengshu Liu and Chunyan Wu

4. Intimacy in Urban Families: Harmony and Social Cohesion

Hui Miao

5. Revolutionary Filial Piety: Red Collecting and the Creation of Intimacy

Emily Williams

6. Bridging the Gap: The Market Economy and (Re)Shaping Marriage Transmitted Debt 

May Cheong, Jie Huang, and Joseph Black

7. Parental marriage-matchmaking practices: Marketisation, internationalisation, and disgitalisation

Pan Wang

8. Upper Class Self-Identification: Social class, narrative, gender

David S G Goodman

9. Opting Out of the Mainstream: Buddhist Practice as Gendered Critique in Urban China

John Osburg

 

Biography

Fiona Gill is a senior lecturer and current Chair of the Discipline of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include gender and the experiences of women in different contexts, memory, identity, and qualitative research methods.