...that whole
selling and exporting baby girls to North America deal must be goin' great guns...
When Mr. Zhou reported his missing spouse to authorities, he found his situation wasn't unique. In the first two months of this year, Hanzhong town saw a record number of scams designed to extract high bride prices in a region with an oversupply of bachelors.
Oh, c'mon... we've gotta be talkin' media hype, right? I mean, how bad can this really be?
Using data from the 2005 China census -- the most recent -- a study published in last month's British Journal of Medicine estimates there was a surplus of 32 million males under the age of 20 at the time the census was taken.
That's roughly the size of Canada's population.
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