Tonight I have something to do and won't go home: Interview records of extramarital emotions of urban mainstream population

Author: Zhang Jianpeng, Hu Zuqing
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is not written for sensationalism or to provide emotional consumption for readers, nor is it written for readability. Although it tells stories, it does not focus on those on the fringes of the city, even though their stories are intriguing and thrilling. This book focuses on mainstream society, exploring the interdependent yet contradictory dual relationships between love and marriage, freedom and responsibility, and individual liberation and moral norms through their emotional survival states. Interviews with mainstream urbanites about extramarital emotions! In the bustling metropolis, amidst the swirling streams of traffic and people; under the dimming lights, there are some who are immersed in the internet, smartphones are, material wealth is abundant, and the individuals composing society are inevitably changing. Thus, there are such groups among the members of society; between tradition and modernity, straddling rationality and impulse, performing a series of confusing and dazzling emotional phenomena. This book is the result of in-depth interviews conducted by multiple journalists, with detailed information and a deep understanding of emotions. The interviewees are all mainstream urbanites. Most of them have families and careers, education, social status, and rational thinking. They are not recklessly marginalizing and rebellious, nor are they openly indulging and flamboyant. Traditional moralitys them, and extramarital emotions also attract them. They consider their identity, status, and family. However, they also have a subconscious desire for compensation. Inside and outside the family, emotional desires, moral responsibilities, career, and life intertwine, making some of them carefree, some confused, some persistent, some puzzled, some bold, and some cautious. In the streams of traffic and people, they are everywhere busy; under the red lights and wine, their songs and tears are drowned; in the lonely night and lamp, they are searching for a home for their bodies and souls. Are you coming home tonight? Goodbye!