Tag Archives: marriage

The dating game

Who would your parents choose as a life partner for you given the opportunity? I am not sure I would leave that decision in the hands of anyone else but in China, there is the tradition of parents advertising their offspring to other similarly desperate parents trying to offload their own. People’s Square is the… Read More »

One in 32 million

As a result of an organisational disaster in Shanghai on Saturday I had a lot of hours to kill. I went over to People’s Square where I was pleased to find an interesting event being held in the park. It was similar to the dating event in Nanjing that I stumbled upon several weeks ago… Read More »