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Matching Vietnamese brides with Chinese men, marriage brokers find good business – and sometimes love

  • Written by Wei Li, Associate Professor of Sociology, Frostburg State University
A growing number of young Vietnamese women are marrying foreigners, mostly from China and South Korea. AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki

China has 24 million more men than women of marriageable age, putting some bachelors in a tough spot.

In rural areas of China, three decades of sex-selective abortions under the one-child policy, which ended in 2015, have...

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