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How China's mail-order brides are taking back control

Chinese Whispers

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Transnational Business Masculinity

The idea is that a lot of the women who were financially well-off that joined the dating agencies, they were essentially economic winners of China's globalization. So these women feel that if I'm going to marry someone who maybe gamble away my hard-earned money and is going to cheat on me anyway, then I might as well marry rich and make money from that instead of marrying someone who will cheat on me and make me broke. But you can really see the shift between the couples because of China's economic rise in economic paradigm. On the other hand, I would also caution us to realize that this is tied to the women's position within their own social class.

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