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Commodifying Romance and Searching for Love

Rural Migrant Bar Hostesses' Moral Vision in Post-Mao Dalian

Tiantian Zheng

State University of New York, College at Cortland

This article discusses Dalian's bar hostesses' paradoxical model of romance: one that is both commodified and based on love. On the one hand, hostesses reject the popular media's emphasis on romantic love and sexual purity as a thin disguise for the ugly reality of men's sexual exploitation of women, and they actively perform and commodify romance for their instrumental purposes. On the other hand, hostesses resort to supernatural forces to determine their romantic fate and to seek out ideal love.

Key Words: romance • love • commodification • sex workers • urban China

This version was published on October 1, 2008

Modern China, Vol. 34, No. 4, 442-476 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0097700408319493
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