marriage

www.wantchinatimes.com — An online "divorce calculator," which uses 10 questions to estimate the cost of a person's divorce, has popular in China, attracting over 1 million visits since July.

www.wantchinatimes.com — The popularity of a recent Chinese TV drama reflects the reality of the generation born in the 1980s in China, which is entering the institution of marriage with a touch of uncertainty and insecurity.
Naked Marriage Age, a 30-episode TV series which depicts a young couple with a struggling marriage trying to make ends meet, has resonated with the post-1980s generation in China.

www.thesun.co.uk — A JILTED bride-to-be tries to hurl herself off the top of a building - still wearing her wedding dress - after her boyfriend broke up with her.

Devastated Li-Wan sat sobbing on a window ledge 80ft up in Changchun, eastern China, just hours after partner Wang Lu called off the big day.

seeingredinchina.wordpress.com — Like arranging for a blind date, let me introduce myself first: I'm a 30-year-old single man growing up in a big city in China and I'm the only child in the family. I have a postgraduate degree and a decent job with a comparatively good salary. Moreover, I have 2 condominiums on mortgage. Everything I said here puts me in an advantageous position in the dating circle.

seeingredinchina.wordpress.com — With so many changes in China over the past 30 years of opening up, it isn’t surprising that weddings have been hugely impacted as well. The result is that in modern China it’s incredibly hard to say what a “typical” wedding includes beyond a large meal and a lot of drinking.