China

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

sex/sexuality

marriage

social/economic class

(2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41

Topic

authors

readers

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Feng, Jin

(2011) Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

socialism and/or communism

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

war/armed forces

Feng, Jin

(2013) Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance Leiden: Brill

Topic

Tang, Yang

(2014) Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace MA thesis, Simon Fraser University

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Young, Erin S.

(2016) "Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 205-221

Topic

United States of America

(2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y

Topic

Zhou, Yanyan

Paul, Bryant

Sherman, Ryland

(2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y

Topic

Zhou, Yanyan

Paul, Bryant

Sherman, Ryland

(2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y

Topic

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/AWFD7941

Topic

(2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/RVXO4126

Daud, Kathrina Mohd

(2021) "In response to Harlequin: Global legacy, local agency " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 529-545 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-24

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2022) The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business Frontiers in Economics and Management 3.4:625-629 DOI: 10.6981/FEM.202204_3(4).0081

Topic

emotions

Fanetti, Susan

(2022) New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

India

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2022) "The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-20

Topic

Sherry Thomas

settings

love

Buddhism

religion/spirituality

(2022) Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Science 5.2:32-45 DOI: 10.25236/AJHSS.2022.050206

Topic

Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon

readers

love

(2023) The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors PhD, Silpakorn University

Topic

Thailand

race/ethnicity

romances in magazines and newspapers

Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin

(2023) Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories Cultural History 12.2:224–250 DOI: 10.3366/cult.2023.0288

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Taiwan