Contents

pp 5-6

Acknowledgements

pp 7-8

List of Tables

pp 9-10

1 - Introduction: Locating Chinese Women in the Cyberspace

pp 11-22

Part I - Work, Leisure, Politics and Identity

pp 23-24

2 - Internet as Social Capital and Social Network: Cyberactivity of Hong Kong and Shanghai Women

pp 25-46

3 - Agency and ICT Among Singaporean-Chinese Women

pp 47-64

4 - Can the Internet Help? How Immigrant Women from China Get Jobs: A Survey on PRC Immigrants’ Employment Status in Canada

pp 65-94

5 - Cyberactivism in the Women's Movement: A Comparison of Feminist Practices by Women Organizing in Mainland China and Hong Kong

pp 95-116

6 - Cyber Self-centres?: Young Hong Kong Women and their Personal Websites

pp 117-134

7 - Embeddedness and Virtual Community: Chinese Women and Online Shopping

pp 135-154

8 - Electronic Park Benches: Online Mothers in Hong Kong Using the Baby Kingdom

pp 155-178

Part II - Love, Sex and Marriage

pp 179-180

9 - Sapphic Shadows: Sworn Sisterhoods and Cyber Lesbian Communities in Hong Kong

pp 181-202

10 - Sex & Life Politics Formed Through the Internet: Online & Offline Dating Experiences of Young Women in Shanghai

pp 203-222

11 - On Sale in Express Package: Chinese Female Bodies as Commodities in Cyberspace

pp 223-248

12 - Boundary-Crossing through Cyberspace: Chinese Women and Transnational Marriages Since 1994

pp 249-270

Contributors

pp 271-272

Index

pp 273-275