Preface in English | p. vii |
Preface in Chinese | p. xiii |
List of abbreviations and conventions | p. xv |
Popular Culture | p. 1 |
Online dating | p. 3 |
Brand-name fever | p. 27 |
Television dramas and popular culture | p. 49 |
Social Change | p. 73 |
The city of Yiwu in Zhejiang: A miracle of Chinese regional economic development | p. 75 |
Floating population | p. 96 |
Changing views of marriage | p. 117 |
Cultural Traditions | p. 147 |
Chinese food culture | p. 149 |
Confucianism in modern China | p. 170 |
Chinese architecture in transition | p. 194 |
History and Politics | p. 217 |
"Educated youth" | p. 219 |
A start for democracy | p. 244 |
Cross-Strait relations | p. 266 |
Indexes | |
Pinyin-English vocabulary | p. 287 |
English-Pinyin vocabulary | p. 317 |
Idioms | p. 346 |
Index of speech patterns | p. 350 |
Notes | p. 354 |
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