At the age of 34, Chen Jing seems to have it all: a comfortable income, a successful career as an executive at a mobile-phone company, lots of friends, her own Citroën car.
But she doesn’t have a husband. And so, one recent afternoon, her parents secretly slipped down to a Beijing park to try to find her a marriage partner.
“We dare not tell her,” says her nervous father, 62-year-old Chen Guangqian. “She would feel ashamed if she knew we were doing this. I didn’t want to come here. It’s embarrassing.”
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