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Are 'leftover women' a unique Chinese phenomenon?

( bbs.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-02-16 08:35

mustbejoking (UK)

I'm a Brit living in China. My girlfriend is soon to be 30 and under great pressure from her family to marry. I have spoken to other women who suffer the same pressure. Chinese children seem pressured by their parents from the cradle until they are rich, married and have their own child. This, I think, is the biggest cultural difference between the UK and China.

Are 'leftover women' a unique Chinese phenomenon?

31 year old Londoner Grace Gelder married herself in March 2014. [Photo/IC]

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