We hurriedly cleaned up the studio and tried to set a bit more of a romantic tone this week, a feat accomplished mostly by positioning small candles and trays of potpourri by the microphones. And why else than because our subject today is sex and marriage, and perhaps more of the former than the latter. So join us for a show about who wants it, who gets it, and exactly how far some researchers will go when doing work on the Chinese sex industry.
Joining Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn on Sinica this week are Tricia Wang and Christina Larson. Tricia is an up-and-coming ethnographer whose focus is on the lives of China’s down-and-out population. Christina is a long-time guest returning to Sinica this week to talk about dating and sex in China, and who we try to convince to give us an advance peek at a forthcoming piece of hers in Foreign Policy.
Mentions
- Tricia Wang's blogs: blog.triciawang.com and bytesofchina.com
- Liumang Yan's QQ blog
- Daguu, a mobile internet job search site for migrant workers
Recommendations
Christina Larson:
- Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World by Thomas Campanella
Tricia Wang:
Kaiser Kuo:
- Absolution by Patrick Flanery
- The New Yorker review by Philip Gourevitch that inspired the recommendation (subscription required)
Jeremy Goldkorn:
- Bababa group blog (八八吧)
- University of Leiden's "Weibo Corpus"
