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When We Talk About Love Stories

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The Titanic

Most of these young workers are not married. Wannick says there is a sense among some middle-class Chinese that these workers are paying a kind of loneliness tax, an emotional cost for being the engine of China's economy. The government wants more of these workers to go back to the village and get married. When people share love stories, they're letting you see how they hope their lives could be better than anyone else on screen.

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