Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Family Revolution, Divorce Representations -- 1. Divorcing the Rural: Miss Science and Marital Crisis in the Reform Era -- 2. Midlife Crisis and Misogynist Rhetoric: Male Intellectuals' Divorce Narratives -- 3. Utopia or Dystopia?: The Sisterhood of Divorced Women -- 4. What Quality Do Chinese Wives Lack? Performing Middle-Classness in Chinese-Style Divorce -- 5. Seeking Second Chances in a Risk Society: The Cinema of Divorce in the New Millennium -- 6. A New Divorce Culture: Rupture and Reconstruction -- Appendix 1: Television Dramas about Divorce, 1990-2010 -- Appendix 2: Feature Films about Divorce, 2000-2010 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.