Brooke Larmer of The New York Times chronicles the matchmaking efforts of two men at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum in China, where “love hunters” and other services now dot an evolving marriage landscape:...
As China sent it’s first female astronaut into space, women were also faced with the issue of forced abortions, which brought the issue of gender equality to attention. There are now reports that the gender gap is further...
Global Times reports on the swarms of middle-aged singles inundating the café at a Shanghai IKEA in search of free coffee and the loves of their lives. “They get real noisy and take up all the seats,” Yin...
Undeterred by widespread mockery abroad of guidelines discouraging time travel dramas, Chinese officials are looking for other ways of promoting a more wholesome TV diet as the number of viewers watching entertainment shows...
The latest article in the Guardian’s weeklong series, China at the Crossroads, looks at changing social dynamics and attitudes toward marriage, and begins with a visit to an elderly matchmaker: You might assume Zhao envies...
Gender imbalance at home may have women in high demand, but that’s not stopping some would-be Chinese brides from looking online and across the sea to Japan — where men of means are in turn seeking them. In fact, as...
From China Daily (by the way, BMW also stands for “be my wife”): A matchmaking party aimed at pairing up millionaire men with beautiful women will be held on a ship on Shanghai’s Huangpu River on November 25. All of the male participants must have assets worth at least 2 million yuan (US$250,000), and all […]
From BBC News: The mass events, which draw hundreds of single men and women, have climbed in popularity since they were introduced in Chinese cities. One event in Zhejiang in April attracted 12,658 participants, Xinhua news agency said, while 10,000 showed up for another in Shanghai. The events appeal to China’s new ranks of urban […]
From Reuters via The New York Times: Zhang Dianwei is on a mission — to find his daughter a husband. But he’s not turning to the Internet or using a traditional matchmaker. Instead, he goes most Thursdays and Sundays to a park nestled in the shadows of Beijing’s Forbidden City, carrying a printed sheet of […]
From Reuters via CNet.com: Online marriage brokers are common in China, but a young Chinese Web site is thriving by turning the traditional idea of marriage on its head. Called Marriage for Asexuals, the site claims to be the first and biggest online marriage broker for “asexual” people in China. It says it has attracted […]
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