Men, Women, Money, and Morality: The Development of China's Sexual Economy
研究中国性经济中富有的政治影响力男性与未婚年轻女性之间的交换关系，分析电视剧《蜗居》和民族志资料，探讨商品化与物质主义对男女的影响，以及性别不平等如何融入官方和民间话语。
This paper focuses on men and women engaged in China's sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television serial, Woju (Dwelling Narrowness), coupled with recent ethnographic studies, the paper shows how this sexual economy thrives in the increasingly competitive and commercial urban landscape of present-day China. The study then examines the impact of commodification and materialism on men and women. The paper places these gender dynamics within the context of socioeconomic changes during the last thirty years and investigates how gender inequality became assimilated into both official and popular discourses of Chinese life, thereby facilitating the ascendancy and power of the sexual economy.