Chinese man still wed to US woman with PhD 20 years after massage parlour meeting

The story of a moderately educated man from rural China who has been married to an American woman with a PhD degree for 20 years has gone viral on mainland social media.

Wu Yanju, 44, was born in a village in Yuzhou, central Henan province.

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