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...
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...
Chinese Matchmaker: China's New Revolution: Private Home Ownership
The newly built two-room apartment cost a small fortune by a Chinese worker's standards--more than 5,000 yuan, or about $1,562.The floors are concrete and required painting. The walls were bare, and there were no lighting fixtures.Still, Shen Huanshan, 58, scraped up the cash to buy the apartment. There are restrictions on any resale, because the local chemical company, his employer, subsidized its purchase, but Shen and his wife hope that someday they can pass it on to...
Chinese Matchmaker: No business like snow business
THE recent blizzard in New York taught me the importance of encouraging youth entrepreneurship.It began last Friday, at around 11.30 pm, when someone rang the doorbell of our Brooklyn apartment.The Wife peeked through the spyhole and saw an African American lad, who, in hip-hop parlance, was 'macked out to the dilly-o' with his outsize Fubu threads and a do-rag on his dreads.At this hour in our neighbourhood, we'd be suspicious of someone in a...
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....
