The woman on this poster is on the market -- the marriage market in Shanghai's People's Park. Each Saturday and Sunday parents who fear their children won't find spouses post thousands of ads hoping to make a match. (Dave Cole/Penn State University/MCT)
Finding husbands is tough for China’s ‘leftover ladies’ – if they even want them.
SHANGHAI native Huang Wei’s weekends are routine by now. Every Saturday and Sunday morning, he travels to People’s Square to scan the walls of personal advertisements in the hopes of finding a woman he thinks would be a good match for him.
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