The Power Dynamics of Chinese Marriages

Monica is particularly interested in the power dynamics involved in all of these things we've talked about the different racial hierarchies involved but also what do you put it down as that it's western men going to China looking for Chinese women. You know I think all of this is related to how we think about masculinity and how we Think about femininity right so particularly in a place like China masculinity is associated with men's earning capacity especially today. For Chinese men to leave behind everything he has to marry a woman who's living in a more economically developed country probably does not fit with the ideology of masculinity. similarly for western women for them to leave the United States which is still admittedly the number one global