Is the "springless" Year of the Tiger putting young Chinese couples off marrying this year? Not really. The generation born in the 1980s don't pay much attention to folk superstition. An ancient Chinese tradition says it is inappropriate to get married in the 2010 lunar year, as there is no "spring" in it.
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One take on answering the question anyway: There are too many men--and hoarding cash is one way to triumph in a competitive marriage market. There are approximately 122 boys born for every 100 girls today, a ratio that translates into cutting about one in five Chinese men out of the marriage market when this generation of children grows up.
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Too many menfolk and too few chicas. What to do? Let's go get our womenfolk in Vietnam! That's what a lot of Chinese men are doing now. But wait, there's more. It's not the well-to-do guys. It's the low-income gents setting their scopes on the Vietnamese.
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In ancient China, it is common for a girl to sell herself for the burial of her father, today this girl pledges to marry the one who saves her classmate. Her classmate was suffering from severe brain inflammation in urgent need of 150,000 yuan. If a good-hearted man is willing to donate, she would repay with her body by marrying him.
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A MAN jumped off a ship on Tuesday night and swam across the Yangtze River during a torrential downpour in Chongqing Municipality to escape his garrulous wife, Chongqing Evening News reported today.
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Stuff every foreign guy should read before he even thinks about getting romantic in China.
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Consulate staff laughing at a citizen despite the staff making the mistake, arguing, walking away, no sense of apology, and importantly, no name tags to identify the individuals. The US consulate doesn't seem a nice place for even a US citizen.
Rich then proceeds to lay out a workflow procedure which will certainly not be adopted.
read more »A reader over at Lost Laowai e-mailed me about a horrible situation he's in - his Chinese wife ran off with her boyfriend with his 5-year-old daughter. He asked if I had any advice on what he could do, I didn't. Fortunately the comments yielded some results. Some good information about having children in China and their citizenship (despite what it might say on their passport).
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Video report on the Chinese parents who meet up in Shanghai parks to find partners for their children. Matchmakers trade love on the open market in this modern day take on arranged marriages.
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More and more Chinese couples are not getting married on purpose to avoid legal responsibilities.
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