... the mortgage, the phone bill, the car's gasoline, the fancy restaurant, the hairdresser's, the electricity, the little emperor's school fee, ... [please fill in the blanks] ...
China has moved quite a distance from the good ol' days of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution when two lovebirds loved Chairman Mao ten thousand times more than they loved each other.
“Today's Chinese woman would rather weep inside a new car than smile on seat [sic] of a bicycle”, reads the introduction of a remarkable story in the China Daily of February 6 (China Daily: The high price of love).
“Mei qian mei tan”, freely translated, “No money, no love talk”. Although anything can be negotiated. The Chinese are the ultimate masters of the game of bargaining. Sharing the bedsheets may be a lot cheaper than tying the not. Everything has its price, but the most expensive is ... marriage. Maybe the Chinese boys should tell the girls that marriage is waaaay tooo expensive and that they'll be happy to pay the bedsheets' fee, thank you madam.
Having no car may still be acceptable if this deficiency is fixed within the next 6 months or so, but having no apartment is definitely a no-no. No just-married-couple wants to sleep next door to mom and dad...
Adding to that, there are a lot more marriageable-aged boys than girls and the problem becomes rather insurmountable.
Although Chinese looking-for-a-bride bachelors are still a lot better off than their counterparts in Baghdad...
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