LEADER 04052nam 22007813 450 001 9910838316903321 005 20231110223640.0 010 $a1-5036-3374-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503633742 035 $a(CKB)5580000000356111 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29972952 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29972952 035 $a(DE-B1597)641553 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503633742 035 $a(OCoLC)1350572464 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000356111 100 $a20220916d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSeeking Western Men $eEmail-Order Brides under China's Global Rise 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBielefeld :$cStanford University Press,$d2022. 210 4$dİ2022. 215 $a1 online resource (260 pages) 225 1 $aGlobalization in Everyday Life 311 $a1-5036-3247-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $t1 WHY DO CHINESE WOMEN SEEK WESTERN MEN? -- $t2 PROVIDER LOVE -- $t3 TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS MASCULINITY -- $t4 EMBRACING DOMESTICITY -- $t5 BODY OF A WOMAN, FATE OF A MAN -- $t6 SURROGATE DATING . Translators behind the Screens -- $tEPILOGUE -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aCommercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes?younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western Men. Her study of China's email-order bride industry offers stories of Chinese women who are primarily middle-aged, divorced, and proactively seeking spouses to fulfill their material and sexual needs. What they seek in their Western partners is tied to what they believe they've lost in the shifting global economy around them. Ranging from multimillionaire entrepreneurs or ex-wives and mistresses of wealthy Chinese businessmen, to contingent sector workers and struggling single mothers, these women, along with their translators and potential husbands from the US, Canada, and Australia, make up the actors in this multifaceted story. Set against the backdrop of China's global economic ascendance and a relative decline of the West, this book asks: How does this reshape Chinese women's perception of Western masculinity? Through the unique window of global internet dating, this book reveals the shifting relationships of race, class, gender, sex, and intimacy across borders. 410 0$aGlobalization in Everyday Life 517 $aSeeking Western Men 606 $aForeign spouses$zWestern countries 606 $aIntercountry marriage$zChina 606 $aMail order brides$zChina 606 $aMarriage brokerage$zChina 606 $aOnline dating$zChina 606 $aWomen$zChina$xEconomic conditions 606 $aWomen$zChina$xSocial conditions 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family$2bisacsh 610 $aChinese ascendance. 610 $aWestern decline. 610 $aanomie. 610 $aentrepreneurial C-feminism. 610 $aglobalization. 610 $amarriage migration. 610 $apostreform era. 610 $asurrogate dating. 610 $atransnational business masculinity. 610 $atransnational dating industry. 615 0$aForeign spouses 615 0$aIntercountry marriage 615 0$aMail order brides 615 0$aMarriage brokerage 615 0$aOnline dating 615 0$aWomen$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family. 676 $a306.84/50951 700 $aLiu$b Monica$01729355 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838316903321 996 $aSeeking Western Men$94139120 997 $aUNINA