Little Emperors and Material Girls

Jemimah Steinfeld is a journalist who has worked and lived in China. She holds an MA from SOAS in China Studies and has written for The Global Times in China. A freelance writer and journalist, she writes regularly as a China correspondent for CNN, Time Out and at The Huffington Post, as well as for various print and online outlets on feminism, dating and fashion.

• Acknowledgements ixIntroduction: The Chinese Dream 1Love and Dating 1 Leftover in Beijing 11 2 Reality Bytes: The Emergence of the Internet in China 33 3 Diamond Love: China’s Rich Kids and who they Date 49 4 Red Wedding: Capitalism Meets Communism in Chinese Marriage 72 5 The Other Woman: Mistress Culture Sex and Sexuality 6 Let’s Talk about Sex 105 7 Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll 119 8 Half out of the Closet: Being Gay in Twenty-First-Century China 136 9 China’s Pussy Riot 163China’s Now Generation10 Leaning In: Women and China’s New Power 177 11 Model Comrades: Youth, the Party and the Country 190 12 In Love with God: China’s New Young Christians 214Epilogue: London 223Further Reading

'A breath of fresh air...Steinfeld delves into the field, interviewing spoiled Beijing princelings, Shanghai's gay clubbers, anxious wannabe brides and others. Her findings are shocking and speak volumes about the gulf that exists between Eastern and Western ideas of identity, and how to build it... A must-read for anyone who wants to know what young Chinese kids really think about sex, relationships and romance', Time Out Shanghai