The idea of a “normal perspective” is, of course, a contested one, and unpacking this politics of the normal is a primary goal of this chapter. I discuss Chinese media representations of international relationships, including the “foreign-f females,” in order to trace out what I label a discourse of “ethnonational heteronormativity,” meaning sexual norms ascribed to Han Chinese cultural traditions. (Non-Han, ethnic minorities inside of China, are excluded from this discourse, hence the term ethno national.) In the Chinese context, ethnonational heteronormativity involves expectations that a Chinese woman should definitely marry, that she should naturally prefer an

ethnically Chinese man, and that she should behave virtuously until marriage. I then use ethnographic research I conducted in Shanghai to show how some women in Shanghai actually talk about their transnational sexual experiences in ways that violate the expectations of ethnonational heteronormativity.