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The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Ladies

In Foreign Policy, Christina Larson looks at the phenomenon of “leftover women,” or women who remain single in their late 20s. She asks why, with China’s well-documented gender imbalance, women are choosing to remain single despite an abundance of available bachelors:What’s most startling about this national obsession with China’s Bridget Joneses is that sheer number