Little Emperors and Material Girls: Youth and Sex in Modern China

China is the world s fastest-growing economy. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place in the bars, cafes and streets of China s mega-cities. Welcome to the new China. Writer and journalist Jemimah Steinfeld meets the young people behind the world s fastest-moving nation to unveil their attitudes towards love, life and sexuality. Young Chinese have new words to describe the world they live in: little emperors bossy and selfish single men who have grown up under the one child policy; leftovers women over twenty-six who aren t married; love markets weekend gatherings where parents attempt to find husbands and wives for their children, match-make young singles and offer boyfriends for hire. Steinfeld introduces the people at the heart of this world, from the man starting China s first online dating agency to the women who work the red-light districts; from the company trying to sell sex toys to China s middle-classes to the sino-punks of Beijing s bar scene. Little Emperors and Material Girls is the book that will change the way you see China