Chinese Matchmaker: A story about friendship in China in the 19th Century
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan By Lisa See Random House, 258 pages, $21.95 In her 1976 memoir, "The Woman Warrior," Maxine Hong Kingston recalls the familiar Chinese proverbs chanted by her parents: "When fishing for treasures in the flood, be careful not to pull in girls," and, "There's no profit in raising girls. Better to raise geese than girls."In the 19th Century rural Chinese...
Today's Chinese Matchmaker Arranges Housing Swaps, Not Marriages
Fan Shuhua is a modern-day Chinese matchmaker. She sits in a booth in a Peking park, arranging not marriages but housing swaps.Her clients come from the legions of city-dwellers who want to get out of a miserable housing situation--people with a wearying commute to work, people living in unheated fifth-floor walk-ups, people who have no school nearby, no place to shop.Fan, using a small file of index cards, notes where each applicant lives and what each needs, or dreams of getting....
Chinese Matchmaker: We're so happy we married our own Ting Tongs,
Sunwoman
Real-life couples laugh off Little Britain's jibes TING TONG is the latest outrageous character to join Little Britain.When lonely Brit Dudley ordered a svelte Thai bride, he was more than disappointed when Ting Tong Macadangdang arrived.The lumpy, unattractive she-male was not the slender vision of oriental womanhood he had ordered on the internet. Although Ting Tong, with Dudley, right, is a caricature, the scenario has a grain of truth - the number of women admitted...
