In: K.-S. Rehberg (Hrsg.): Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München 2006. Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/New York, S. 3249-3259.
Newly arrived from Guangzhou, Sun Peidong wanted to understand her new home town. Shanghai’s match-making corner in People’s Square was already well known and so in September 2007 she began a ten month ethnography of the corner,... more
Newly arrived from Guangzhou, Sun Peidong wanted to understand her new home town. Shanghai’s match-making corner in People’s Square was already well known and so in September 2007 she began a ten month ethnography of the corner, interviewing mothers and fathers who congregated each weekend and holiday to find spouses for their adult children. The media explained the phenomenon as the result of surplus women and in particular the surplus of well educated women in professional jobs for whom there were not enough suitable matches. These young women were seen as pathetic and also too demanding.
