Love Stories in China: The Politics of Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century

by Wanning Sun (Editor), Yang Ling (Editor)

This book explores how political, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are (re)shaping the meanings of love and intimacy in China's public culture. It focuses on a range of cultural and media forms including literature, film, television, music and new media, examines new cultural practices such as online activism, virtual intimacy and relationship counselling, and discusses how far love and romance have come to assume new shapes and forms in the twenty-first century. Love Stories in China offers deep insights into how the huge transformation of China over the last four decades has impacted the micro lives of ordinary Chinese people.

264 pages, ebook

Published July 31, 2019

About the author

Wanning Sun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia