Introduction -- Yearnings : televisual love and melodramatic politics -- Museum as women's space : displays of gender -- Qualities of desire : imagining gay identities -- From sacrifice to desire : cosmopolitanism with Chinese characteristics -- Legislating desire : homosexuality, intellectual property rights, and consumer fraud -- Desiring China : China's entry into the WTO -- Coda

1. China -- Social conditions -- 21st century
2. Sex -- Social aspects -- China
3. Popular culture -- China
4. Culture and globalization -- China
5. Cosmopolitanism -- China
6. Post-communism -- China
7. Neoliberalism -- China
8. National characteristics
9. Chinese