Description: "Love and Romance in China examines love, affection, and emotions in China from Maoist to contemporary China, focusing on the intersections with politics, economics, gender, class, race and technology. Wang draws on a wide range of texts, including government statistics on marriages and divorces, legal documents, Maoist folk songs, poems, posters, love letters, media texts, popular discourses, online dating websites, and ethnographic observations and interviews"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Pan Wang is Associate Professor in Chinese and Asian Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Love and Marriage in Globalising China (2015).
Review Quotes: "The book combines diverse texts and methodologies to examine intimate relationships as a public discourse shaped through an evolution of institutional regulations and values, dis-institutional responses and practices, and emotional expressions and desires in contemporary China and beyond. Anybody who wants to expand their views about love and emotions can benefit from this reading." --Huike Wen, Willamette University, USA