Matters of the Heart: Dating/Marriage in China

Dating is still a serious matter here in China; but a lot of times, the Chinese have friends or family members introduce them to other available single people. Your friends, and family members, including your parents, aunts and uncles, even your grandparents pitch in to who they think you should marry ---- date, I mean. But nowadays, the dating scene in China, especially in Beijing is getting more personal, also younger! Most of my Chinese classmates in college were not allowed to date while they were in high school but these days you see lovers in high school uniforms hiding behind bushes kissing and groping. I just find the dating scene in Beijing becoming really modern these days, it’s really catching up, and already beyond some Asian countries. Online dating is really in, even dating-parties such as the one my friends went to recently, and oh, I read about a website dedicated to finding gays straight partners just for marriage for society's sake (being gay in China was considered a psychological problem until recently).