Hong Kong Women are Lonelier and Lonelier – Kent Ewing

Kent Ewing is a teacher and writer at Hong Kong International School. He writes an article to state that “the number of unmarried Hong Kong women living on their own shot up 43.8% over the past five years,” and analyses the reason by showing a series of census data. From Asia Times Online:

When Deng Xiaoping coined the maxim “one country, two systems” that would reunite Hong Kong with the motherland 10 years ago, China’s former paramount leader was probably not thinking about the systems that govern relations between the sexes. Census figures show, however, that like everything else, the relationship between men and women is being reshaped by the 1997 handover from British rule.

In a nutshell, Hong Kong men are warming up to mainland women a lot faster than their female counterparts are looking across the border for romance. Indeed, the city’s latest demographic data paint a distinctly lonely picture for Hong Kong women….[Full Text]

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