一个人的城市

Preface

A Determined Singleton

Interview location: a cafe in Haldian District, Beijing

Interviewee: Liu Yue

Profile: head of the administrative office of a real estate company. From

Sichuan, bachelor's degree, previously a personnel secretary and office

manager.

Love with a Shelf Life

Interview location: a restaurant in Chaoyang District, Beijing

Interviewee: Wang Mengmeng

Profile: boss of a culture company, bachelor's degree

Is It Wrong to Be Prudent?

Interview location: a pub and a restaurant in Sanlitun, Beijing

Interviewee: Cao Xiaoqi

Profile: a high school teacher, MA degree, from Northeast China,

columnist for some Beijing newspapers

Proof-Reading Error Leads to a Love Affair

Interview location: a teahouse in Chaoyang District, Beijing, and QQ

messaging

Interviewee: Liu Qingqing

Profile: from Hubei, junior college graduate, worked for a Beijing

newspaper, now a freelancer.

All Men Are Promiscuous

Interview localion: McDonald's in Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing

Interviewee: Deng Na

Profile: from Chongqing, teacher at a Beijing beauty school.

An Unwilling Dependant

Interview localion: a care in Pudong District, Shanghai, and MSN messaging

Interviewee: Pan Yanmei

Profile: from Zhejiang, formerly a postage stamp dealer in Suzhou, now a

company employee in Shanghai

Mystery and Innocence

Interview localion: a restaurant and cafe in Jingtian in Futian District, Shenzhen

Interviewee: Yang Xiaohui

Profile: from Hubei, associate degree, formerly an administrative clerk and

secretary to a company general manage, currently a freelancer

Beautiful Marriage Obsession

Interview localion: a Hakka hotel in Luohu District, Shenzhen

Interviewee: Xu Zijuan

Profile: bachelor's degree, from Guangdong, formerly a computer trainer,

now staff member of a public institution

A Single Mother

Interview localion: MSN messaging

Interviewee: Chen Qing

Profile: bachelor's degree, administrative clerk of a company

From Fairy Tale to Myth

Interview localion: a meeting room in Shenzhen Times

Interviewee: Zhong Haiyan

Profile: owner of a garment shop

Woman of Fierce Desires

Living with Two Men

Loves that Led Nowhere

The Dazzling City

Looking for a Holiday Lover

United Hearts but Separate Lives

Lovers in Heaven

Fruitless Loves

My Life is Like a Screenplay

In Flight from the Wealthy

Single in the City - A Survey of Chinese Single Women records the lives and emotional experiences of some single women in contemporary China. Its subjects are 2o single women， living in China's major cities，remaining so for different reasons.They include confirmed singleton， iron-willed unmarried mothers， as well as those who depend on rich men Their individual personalities shine through their stories - resilient， kind gentle - as do the multiple and diverse social pressures and problems that contemporary Chinese women face.