{"id":15951,"date":"2017-12-04T09:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15951"},"modified":"2017-12-03T23:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:44:55","slug":"chinadatingschools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/chinadatingschools\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Dating Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/120417_0440_ChinasDatin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sui-Lee Wee wrote about China&#8217;s dating schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many Chinese youth are struggling with a societal shift away from arranged marriages and towards ones based on mutual attraction.<\/li>\n<li>They often haven&#8217;t built the skills necessary to successfully date. And traditional gender preferences combined with the one child policy have left an overabundance of boys.<\/li>\n<li>Dating schools will charge boys anywhere between $45 for an online course to $3,000 for individualized coaching.<\/li>\n<li>Courses start with the basics: how to dress. Narrow collars and fitted pants are important.<\/li>\n<li>Next up: a haircut. The right style is key.<\/li>\n<li>Professional photographers help the boys strike artistic poses to convey a sense of sophistication.<\/li>\n<li>Then there&#8217;s field work. Enrollees are expected to approach random women in the mall and ask to add them on WeChat \u2013 a major Chinese social media platform.<\/li>\n<li>The schools boast a 90% success rate in having their graduates find girlfriends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/18\/business\/china-dating-schools.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0&amp;mtrref=marginalrevolution.com\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sui-Lee Wee wrote about China&#8217;s dating schools: Many Chinese youth are struggling with a societal shift away from arranged marriages and towards ones based on mutual attraction. They often haven&#8217;t built the skills necessary to successfully date. And traditional gender preferences combined with the one child policy have left an overabundance of boys. Dating schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15951","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\/2017\/12\/120417_0440_ChinasDatin1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951","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=15951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15956,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions\/15956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}