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• In China, little girls grow up hearing the phrase “It’s better to marry well than to study well,” Zhang Mei once explained to me during a lesson. “But that’s a very foolish thing to think and a very dangerous way to live.” (查看原文)

  尚未长大 1 回复 2019-07-17 14:13:28

• “In retrospect, this makes perfect sense. For a Chinese man of Dr. X’s standing—well off, well connected, well educated, and well into his fifties—a mistress (or two, or three) is practically a requirement. But when I first met him—still only in my salad days of understanding the dynamics of extramarital relations in China—his ideas and observations seemed extraordinary, if not completely farfetched. “If a man in China doesn’t have a mistress, it’s because his economic situation doesn’t allow for it,” he announced, as casually and assuredly as if he were reporting the latest figures for China’s GDP. “And if a very successful man doesn’t have a mistress, his wife will be puzzled as to why he doesn’t.” (查看原文)

  尚未长大 1 回复 2019-07-17 14:15:02

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