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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Discovering dating violence in China -- Two anecdotes -- When love hurts -- APEC Blue and Beijing Smog: imagined paradise -- Structure of the book -- Notes -- 2. Chinese intersectionality: A critical review of gender-based violence research and gender studies in China -- Gender-based violence: the past and present -- The shift of gender-based violence mapping -- The frontier and cutting-edge feminist activism -- When dating is struggling with violence -- Gender, state, and market -- Victimization of women and their representation -- Women, nation and modernity in question -- Women's images in neo-liberal China -- Feminist interaction between local and global -- The rise of intersectionality -- Indigenous endeavor and the dislocation of Confucian ideas -- Chinese intersectionality as a new framework -- Notes -- 3. Dating landscape, power struggles, and love geography -- Dating: pattern, process, and hierarchy -- College students: the matrix of job selection and dating choice -- 'Looking forward' or 'looking only at money'? -- Uncle-Lolita Complex -- Peacock girl and phoenix boy: dating between Beijingers and waidiren -- Thriving in the cosmopolitan city? New Beijingers' everyday conflicts -- Floating population: out of place -- International dating: choice of skin color -- Long-distance relationships: can love stand the separation? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Sassy girl and tender boy: The transformation of doing gender -- Pattern, types, and interpretations -- The paradox of My Sassy Girl -- Willful and therefore 'normal' -- Transformation of aggressive women images -- 'Harmless' due to love, tolerance, and arrogance -- 'Can you just do what I say?' -- Masculinity in flux