Wanning Sun is Professor of Media and Communication at University of Technology SydneyLing Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese at Xiamen University, China

• Section 1: Marriage in trouble, Chapter 1 Love stories in contemporary China: cultural production in the new millennium, Wanning Sun and Ling Yang, Chapter 2 Is it better to cry on a BMW or laugh on a bicycle? Television shows, marriage and the production of class in urban China Roberta Zavoretti, Chapter 3 Successology for women: relationship experts and sociobiological discourses Haiping Liu, Chapter 4 Holding virtual hands: an ethical practice against male infidelity in digital China, Yi Zhou, Section 2: Rural–urban inequality, Chapter 5 ‘Phoenix men’: changing representations of urban–rural marriages in contemporary China, Guoqing Zheng, Chapter 6 Negotiating class and the rural–urban divide in urban homes: configuring the maid in literature and popular culture Yanwen Li, Chapter 7 Wounded masculinities: the subaltern between online longings and offline realities Tingting Liu, Section 3: Gender, race and class, Chapter 8 Women in rural romantic love: gender politics in television dramas, Huike Wen Chapter 9 ‘Tiny Times’, persistent love: gender, class and relationships in post-1980s bestsellers Ling Yang Chapter 10 The ‘social factory’ of China’s male ‘virtual lovers’ Chris K. K. Tan and Zhiwei Xu, Chapter 11 International romance: changing discourses of Chinese–foreign intimacy in the decades of economic reforms Pan Wang, Section 4: Queer voices, Chapter 12 The emerging ‘national husband’: queer female fantasy in popular culture Jamie J. Zhao, Chapter 13 ‘Revolution plus love?’ Online fandom of the television drama series The Disguiser Xiqing Zheng, Chapter 14 A love story: Li Yuchun’s fans and contemporary Chinese singledom Maud Lavin

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