Ms. Fan's article deals with the recent trend of Chinese men breaking into schools and attacking, sometimes fatally, small children. One of these attackers was Mr. Zheng Minsheng, a 42 year old ex-surgeon. The article tries to explore the motivation behind Mr. Zheng's, and other similar single men's, attack on young children.
Of particular interest are Ms. Fan's discussion on the Mr. Zheng's inability to get married:
"Although Zheng could support himself, his modest income made him a weak contender in the marriage market. According to neighbors, Zheng had dated many women, but none was willing to marry him because he was not rich and could not afford an apartment for himself. In China, still, the ability to own or at least rent a place of one’s own is often a precondition for getting married."
For the sake of Chinese children everywhere, I sincerely hope that rising housing prices isn't a cause of these senseless murders because it doesn't look like Chinese urban housing prices are going to get cheaper anytime soon.
I think it would also help if sleazy foreign men weren't coming to Asia to buy brides...I dunno...just a thought.
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