Post-Soviet White Femininities and Marriage Migration in China
Journal: IMISCOE research series
Year: 2025

Abstract Ever since the 2000s official and popular Chinese discourses have been characterising Chinese-Russian marriages as the prototype of ideal transnational love. This chapter looks at what lies behind these dominant narratives of ‘beautiful and happy’ international marriages by discussing migrant women’s perspectives on their migration and marriage journeys from their home countries in the former Soviet Union to China. The upheavals of the post-socialist transitions and their impact on thes