Xie Zuoshi, a professor at the Zhejing University of Finance and Economics, recently proposed on his blog that a solution to China’s surplus of single men would be to allow women to marry more than one husband. The proposal has provoked a furious backlash from readers who accuse him of “violating traditional morality,” forcing a fed-up Xie to clarify that he was not proposing that plural marriage be mandatory .... http://www.slate.com
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Economist says polyamory can solve China’s gender imbalance. Chinese Internet explodes
Could polyamory be the solution to China’s gender imbalance? The New York Times’s Sinosphere blog reports that one economist’s proposal to that effect hasbecome a viral sensation on the Chinese internet.
Xie Zuoshi, a professor at the Zhejing University of Finance and Economics, recently proposed on his blog that a solution to China’s surplus of single men would be to allow women to marry more than one husband. The proposal has provoked a furious backlash from readers who accuse him of “violating traditional morality,” forcing a fed-up Xie to clarify that he was not proposing that plural marriage be mandatory .... http://www.slate.com
Xie Zuoshi, a professor at the Zhejing University of Finance and Economics, recently proposed on his blog that a solution to China’s surplus of single men would be to allow women to marry more than one husband. The proposal has provoked a furious backlash from readers who accuse him of “violating traditional morality,” forcing a fed-up Xie to clarify that he was not proposing that plural marriage be mandatory .... http://www.slate.com
