{"id":10499,"date":"2014-02-05T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10499"},"modified":"2014-02-05T07:41:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:41:44","slug":"chinas-mistress-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/chinas-mistress-industrial-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Mistress Industrial Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020514_1239_ChinasMistr1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-sex-scandals-might-save-china\/\">previously covered<\/a> China&#8217;s mistress culture. Junheng Li, Bethany Allen, and Ana Swanson provided more details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On a weekend night one can find lines of limos waiting outside of universities to whisk young women away.<\/li>\n<li>Having a mistress has become a type of social status within China and just one of many luxury accessories that the rich frequently purchase.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest difference between China&#8217;s mistress culture and prostitution is that prostitutes are usually paid in cash. Mistresses in China are paid in expensive gifts.<\/li>\n<li>This is because cash encourages freedom while gifts such as apartments create dependency.<\/li>\n<li>It is difficult for women to find work in urban areas. They earn on average a third of their male counterparts, and jobs often have a maximum age cutoff of 26 for women.<\/li>\n<li>All this has consequences for the typical Chinese man. By 2030 more than a quarter of Chinese men in their late 30s are projected to be unmarried.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the material culture that drives this phenomenon, why mistresses must have a college education and social skills, and how one of the mistresses feels about the trend over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/04\/inside-china-s-mistress-industrial-complex.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/04\/inside-china-s-mistress-industrial-complex.html\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered China&#8217;s mistress culture. Junheng Li, Bethany Allen, and Ana Swanson provided more details: On a weekend night one can find lines of limos waiting outside of universities to whisk young women away. Having a mistress has become a type of social status within China and just one of many luxury accessories that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020514_1239_ChinasMistr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10501,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions\/10501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}