Single Women Survey

Author: Wu Shuping
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
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Single women in Beijing are tough and persistent. Either they ignore you, or once they decide to share their secrets with you, they spill them all at once like beans from a bamboo tube.
Single women in Shanghai are skilled at hiding themselves. They are the scenery of the city, yet they prefer to watch their own scenery from a distance.
Single women in Shenzhen are full of stories, most of which originate from the mainland. Shenzhen is a lake of stories.
Single women in Guangzhou are like the city itself—both modern and ancient, open and traditional.
Is being single just a light wave of the sleeves, leaving no clouds behind? Are single women truly mysterious and unpredictable? What impact does the city have on single women?
The author of this book conducted a nearly eight-month emotional privacy survey on single women in China's four major cities—Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou—and found that women in each city, especially single women, reflect the face and personality of their respective cities, embodying their urban style.
Sociologists have calculated that a female graduate student over the age of 30, if she chooses a partner based on traditional standards, has only a 0.2% chance of success. However, if she chooses based on the "three" principle (not caring about age, education level, or marital status), her chances increase to 20%. This seems quite unfair to highly educated single women.