Summary of ”The Price of Marriage in China”.

The article is from The New York Times and was written in March 2013.
In the article we meet Yang Jing who is a “love hunter”, supposedly a new breed of matchmaker. She searches for the perfect spouse for her clients (young bachelor millionaires), and with her clients being picky it’s not always an easy job to do. She typically scouts in a shopping mall with her eight-scout team. When they find someone who could match one of her client’s demands, she confronts the woman and says “I’m a love hunter. Are you looking for love?”
In another part of Beijing there’s a different kind of love hunter, an old widowed woman (Ms. Yu) who is desperately looking for a spouse for her son. Ms. Yu is not the only parent hunting. In the park, where she is, there are long rows of elderly men and women with homemade signs specifying the specs of their sons or daughters. All sitting there, waiting for inquiries, and with a small hope of getting their children married.
The problem of finding a spouse in China is rising and with 118 boys born for every 100 girls the number of potential partners is shrinking. That leads to a big boom in the Internet dating industry in China, and with the number of singles rising and dating sites established, it makes more people, rich and poor, turn to hands-on matchmaking services.

Essay about finding a spouse in China

Finding a spouse in China or Denmark is only as hard as you make it. It seems that the more the social media is expanding, the lazier we get. We are getting lazy when it comes to meet new people, in this example, meeting “the one and only”.
With the many dating sites that are available today you automatically get pickier when it comes to meeting your next boy- or girlfriend. All that you want, or need, to know is already written black on white. This means you will have a head start