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 those seeking to navigate marriage. Written by Huang Meizi, a U.S.-based Chinese-American female author, the book includes firsthand interviews conducted in the U.S. The author, who works as an editor for the Chinese-language magazine The Chinese American, is also a personal experience of marrying into the U.S. through online matchmaking. She interviewed dozens of Chinese women who married American men via online platforms and American-Chinese men who returned to China for dates after using online matchmaking. Their stories are recorded in an oral history format. The tales are both touching and dramatic, with some matchmakers finding happiness, others success, while some fall victims to scams and regret. Each story is unique, with diverse and humorous styles.
The book presents twenty cross-border online matchmaking stories between China and the U.S., featuring male and female protagonists. Among them are Chinese women who successfully married American men through online platforms and led happy lives. There are also white-collar professionals who hastily married and later divorced due to differing values and cultural differences, eventually returning to China. Meanwhile, some American-Chinese men found their partners in China through online matchmaking. However, not all stories end happily—some come with high hopes but leave with disappointment. There are even tragic tales of Chinese men who "married" into the U.S. online but faced a grim fate in the end.
The opportunities and pitfalls of online matchmaking are ever-present. The internet bridges us to the world, but is the moon in the U.S. truly brighter than in China? This book includes stories such as: Online Romance, All Are Imperfect Matches, Is He Really a Scammer?, When False Becomes True and True Becomes False, Chinese Girls, I Don’t Understand Them, and more.