Online Romance - An Oral History of Cross-Border Online Dating

Author: Huang Meizi
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Twenty oral accounts of cross-border online matchmaking between China and the U.S., featuring real people, real stories, and vivid recreations. Blending authenticity, authority, practicality, and caution, this book is an indispensable "Cassia Flower Manual" for operating a marriage for white-collar and single individuals. Written by Huang Meizi, a U.S.-based Chinese writer, the book includes on-the-ground, real-life interviews. The author, an editor at the Chinese-language magazine The Chinese American, is also a personal experience of online matchmaking to the U.S. She interviewed dozens of Chinese brides who married American men through online matchmaking and American-Chinese men who returned to China for dates via the internet. Their stories are recorded in an oral history format. The tales are both touching and dramatic, with some matchmakers finding happiness, others achieving success, while some fell victims to scams and ended up regretting their decisions. Each story is unique, with diverse and humorous styles. The book presents twenty cross-border online matchmaking stories between China and the U.S. Among them are Chinese women who successfully married American men through online platforms and led happy lives. There are also white-collar women who hastily married and later divorced due to differing values and cultural differences, ultimately returning to China. Meanwhile, American-Chinese men who relied on the internet to find their partners in China also achieved success. However, not all stories end happily—some came with high hopes but left disappointed. There are even Chinese men who "married" into the U.S. through online matchmaking, but their ending is rather tragic! The opportunities and pitfalls of online matchmaking are always present. The internet has bridged the world, but is the moon in the U.S. truly brighter than in China? This book includes: "Online Romance," "Nothing But Odd Couples," "Is He Really a Scammer?" "When False Becomes True," "Chinese Girls, I Don’t Understand," and more.