Tiantian Zheng is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland. She has received two national book awards, and has testified before Congress, UNAIDS, and the United Nations on human trafficking and other issues, and has been a featured guest speaker on NPR, BBC, and NBC.

This is an important book that sheds new light on the understudied problem of intimate partner violence in China. Tiantian Zheng has deftly integrated findings from interviews, media sources, and online communities to write a powerful ethnography that tells the stories of Chinese women who experienced intimate partner violence and places them in broader sociocultural, economic, political, and historical perspective.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 - A Social and Cultural History of Intimate Partner Violence in ChinaChapter 2 - Worthy vs Unworthy Victims of Sexual Violence in Post-socialist ChinaChapter 3 - The Criminal Justice System and Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 4 – Male Perceptions and Rationalizations of Intimate Partner Violence in Post-socialist ChinaChapter 5 – Everyday Resistance of Women Against Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 6 - Activism and Intimate Partner ViolenceAfterwordNotesReferencesIndex

Tiantian Zheng is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland. She has received two national book awards, and has testified before Congress, UNAIDS, and the United Nations on human trafficking and other issues, and has been a featured guest speaker on NPR, BBC, and NBC.

This is an important book that sheds new light on the understudied problem of intimate partner violence in China. Tiantian Zheng has deftly integrated findings from interviews, media sources, and online communities to write a powerful ethnography that tells the stories of Chinese women who experienced intimate partner violence and places them in broader sociocultural, economic, political, and historical perspective.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 - A Social and Cultural History of Intimate Partner Violence in ChinaChapter 2 - Worthy vs Unworthy Victims of Sexual Violence in Post-socialist ChinaChapter 3 - The Criminal Justice System and Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 4 – Male Perceptions and Rationalizations of Intimate Partner Violence in Post-socialist ChinaChapter 5 – Everyday Resistance of Women Against Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 6 - Activism and Intimate Partner ViolenceAfterwordNotesReferencesIndex

Tiantian Zheng is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland. She has received two national book awards, and has testified before Congress, UNAIDS, and the United Nations on human trafficking and other issues, and has been a featured guest speaker on NPR, BBC, and NBC.

This is an important book that sheds new light on the understudied problem of intimate partner violence in China. Tiantian Zheng has deftly integrated findings from interviews, media sources, and online communities to write a powerful ethnography that tells the stories of Chinese women who experienced intimate partner violence and places them in broader sociocultural, economic, political, and historical perspective.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 - A Social and Cultural History of Intimate Partner Violence in ChinaChapter 2 - Worthy vs Unworthy Victims of Sexual Violence in Post-socialist ChinaChapter 3 - The Criminal Justice System and Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 4 – Male Perceptions and Rationalizations of Intimate Partner Violence in Post-socialist ChinaChapter 5 – Everyday Resistance of Women Against Intimate Partner ViolenceChapter 6 - Activism and Intimate Partner ViolenceAfterwordNotesReferencesIndex