Opening Up
Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Introduction
Sex and the Market
1Opening Up
And Other Stories
2Scenes
High and Low
3Characters
Big and Small
4True Stories
From Romance to Irony
5Talking Friends
For Love and for Fun
6Feelings
Good and Memorable
7Virginity
Purity of Purpose
8Making Love
And Talking about It
9Play
Dance and Sex
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“A ground-breaking ethnography. [Farrer’s} detailed descriptions of the talk and the behaviour of young Shanghainese make this a valuable contribution to our understanding of contemporary China.”
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