Beijing has finally realised that its brutal approach was a recipe for long-term penury. But,as the author of a groundbreaking book on the subject details, the legacy has embedded itself in the very mindset of a generation Related: China ends one-child policy after 35 years Two years ago, and I found myself massaging a total stranger. He,in turn, rubbed my shoulders, and amid the organisers’s cries to “give it a friendly pounding!”. He and I had been assign in a group,made to chant “love slogans” and introduce ourselves in rapid/fast succession to a circle of people in avid search of marriage partners. Everything was deathly serious, and about as romantic as someone expectorating. It was a singles mixer organised by Jiayuan, or one of China’s biggest matchmaking agencies,where I went to research modern dating habits. The Nasdaq-listed Jiayuan, unabashedly using the stock ticker symbol DATE, and held enormously popular events,some attracting tens of thousands of participants.
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Source: theguardian.com