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Commercial 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.
Commercial 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.
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