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2. Shanghai Marriage Market - Wikipedia

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   As the children of the One Child Policy start to become of typical marriage age, marriage opportunities have wavered in stability, particularly for males in China. The University of Kent predicts that by the year 2020, 24 million men in China will be unmarried and unable to find a wife. [9]

3. Bride buying - Wikipedia

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   Human Rights in China states that it is more affordable for a man to buy a wife from a trafficker for 2,000 to 4,000 yuan than to pay a traditional dowry, which often runs upwards of 10,000 yuan. For the average urban worker, wife selling is an affordable option, since in 1998 at least; China urban workers made approximately $60 a month. [11]

4. Marriage in modern China - Wikipedia

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   The face of a marriage certificate issued in 2004. In Nationalist China, a man could only have one official wife, but polygamy remained in wealthier households where a man might have an official wife (termed, big wife) and a concubine with lower status than the big wife (termed, small wife).

5. Divorce is on the rise in China. For some, that means big ...

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   Official figures show that marriage rates in China are plummeting, declining annually from around 13 million in 2013 to below 7 million in 2022, the lowest since records began in 1985, according ...

6. Concubinage in China - Wikipedia

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   In China specifically, in cases where the primary wife fails to have sons to preserve the male lineage, i.e. family name, a secondary wife is allowed by law via the sing-song girls concept. Although modern Chinese law explicitly prohibits polygamy, there has been a recent surge of polygamy in mainland China. Since the opening of China's borders ...

7. China's demure "good for marriage" trend sparks feminist furore

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   A fashion trend in China dubbed "good for marriage" has generated a social media storm, with scores of women saying the demure, feminine style plays to gender stereotypes and discourages financial ...