How lonely single men created China's dangerous re
Sept 30, 2012 2:20:31 GMT -5
Post by helen on Sept 30, 2012 2:20:31 GMT -5
Bachelor Padding
How lonely single men created China's dangerous real estate bubble.
BEIJING When Xiaobo Zhang got married in the early 1990s, he and his bride, like millions of other couples across China, were given a small room to live in by his danwei, or work unit. At the time a lecturer at Nankai University in Tianjin, Zhang's room was utilitarian and unremarkable, virtually indistinguishable from the ones inhabited by his colleagues. In a word: average.
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