Leftover In China

Leftover In ChinaForty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Then the one child policy resulted in China's first generations of urban only daughters girls who were pushed to study, achieve and succeed as if they were sons. Now, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage or not marry at all to spawn a label: "leftovers". They struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not

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