Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group. This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman marries out of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should marry down to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in...