Bachelors In China

A family in China's Shanxi Province has conducted a "ghost wedding" with the corpse of a woman to pacify the soul of their son who died as a bachelor, in the latest case highlighting the grisly age old custom in rural China.

Widening of the gender imbalance in China may result in 23 million Chinese men ending up as bachelors in the next ten years, a new study has revealed.    The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a government think tank, said in a report that as per 2005 census data the sex ratio of newborn babies was 120 male births to every 10...

A family in China's Shanxi Province has conducted a "ghost wedding" with the corpse of a woman to pacify the soul of their son who died as a bachelor, in the latest case highlighting the grisly age old custom in rural China.

Widening of the gender imbalance in China may result in 23 million Chinese men ending up as bachelors in the next ten years, a new study has revealed.    The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a government think tank, said in a report that as per 2005 census data the sex ratio of newborn babies was 120 male births to every 10...