1st Edition

Love and Marriage in Globalizing China

By Wang Pan Copyright 2015
260 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: Chinese–Foreign Marriage  2. Obstacles, Statistics and Regulations  3. Newspaper Coverage of Chinese–Foreign Marriage  4. Newspaper Coverage of Chinese–Foreign Divorce  5. Celebrity Chinese–Foreign Marriage  6. Celebrity Chinese–Foreign Divorce  7. Documenting Chinese–Foreign Marriage  8. Television Talk Shows  9. Concluding Comments

Biography

Wang Pan is a Postgraduate Researcher at University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Teachers and researchers may find the charts and statistics on marriage patterns useful. This book is less informative for those looking for how racial categories and prejudice may have affected and differentiated Chinese attitudes toward Chinese-foreign unions. - L. Ma, State University of New York at Buffalo

"This book very compellingly carves the contemporary Chinese imagination of China’s position in the new global order out of the phenomenon of Chinese-foreign marriages. It is clearly written and structured with relevant background information, making it not only useful for scholars and students of China studies, (im)migration studies and celebrity studies, but also interesting to the general public." - Pi Chenying, Heidelberg University Germany