Chinese parents are famous for being willing to go to extreme lengths to get their kids a good education; but one lady in Ningbo took it a bit too far when she registered to marry her nephew.
The pair went into the Ningbo Xiangshan Registry Office to register their marriage but staff felt that the couple was a little ‘unnatural’. After asking more questions, the official learned that the woman was in fact the 47-year-old aunt of the man and they had registered to get married so her daughter could qualify for a famous Shanghai high school.
To register for the high school, at least one of the students’ parents must own property in Shanghai and have an undergraduate degree. Seeing as the aunt and her husband didn’t qualify, she simply solved the problem by trying to marry her sister’s son, who has both.
According to staff, the woman said that she ‘had no choice’ and that they would divorce once her daughter had passed the college entrance exams.
Furthermore, when contacted by reporters, representatives from the school said that their regulations were the same as all other Shanghai schools and that it in no way stipulates that the parents must hold an undergraduate degree.
Source: thepaper.cn
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I think the real problem here is misinformation. Not misinformation from the article, but misinformation given to the 75 or 26 year old. My students used to Baidu (as in Google, a verb) information for classes. Many times they would end up on Blogs with bad information or they would ask a classmate. Usually the classmate they asked either didn't know the answer, had already failed the class or done poorly, or the person that gave them the answer was the smart one. The smart one usually gave them a bad answer and then told them later they didn't fully listen to the answer and that next time they should listen better.
Feb 04, 2015 09:16 Report Abuse
Using rules to evade rules. I'd ask why those people felt the need to go to such lengths in the first place. Chinese usually rate marriage as very important, and education too. This is just like the hukou BS, which is seen as an equally valid reason to marry someone. I won't even discuss how people here marry for money. This story is just another symptom of Chinese societal problems, and not nearly the worst.
Feb 04, 2015 08:51 Report Abuse
You nailed it. Mainlanders are masters at finding and exploiting loopholes. Marriage and education are considered important by many chinese BECAUSE both are historically proven ways to deliver a whole bunch of people (families, relatives, friends) out of poverty. Imagine your daughter getting married to the emperor or in today's term, the offspring of a high ranking CCP member or your son got into the CCP upon graduation from Beijing University (an example only, in real life you need guanxi, academic excellence is a joke if we're talking about those circles, but getting into Beijing University at least open the door for your son to those circles). Your jaws would drop when you find out what PLENTY of generals, commanders in the PLA did for a living BEFORE they took up their present position (rest assure it has NOTHING to do with military training). So much for china's national defense. LOL. That's the royal, foot-in-the-door way to build your guanxi network in China for the last 5000+ years if you are at the bottom rug. It still is. And how many poor people does china have? Therefore, GENERALLY SPEAKING their MOTIVES behind marriage and education are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the majority in the West. Perhaps of interest is that this phenomenon is very common in poor, undeveloped countries like China and India. Another similarity these two countries share is a steep class system/hierachy. Cinderalla is a western fairytale figure. In the Chinese culture it isn't. In fact it is a serious matter of life and death for many, something which they had been doing for thousands of years before the Cinderella archetype was put onto paper. This explains why they go to such length, so ruthless,when it comes to marriage and education. Would you like to guess how many hookers in China flocked to buy pirated copies of Richard Gere's movie, Pretty Woman when it came out in 1990? That's one western movie that went viral in China. The plot is still being played out in everyday life by 'amateur hookers'. LOL
Feb 04, 2015 12:40 Report Abuse
"...go to extreme lengths..." ruthless is more accurate "...took it a bit too far..." nothing is morally too low to those brought up in communist china
Feb 03, 2015 20:46 Report Abuse
So much classism in communist China. But better not let the 'Western' values of equality seep in.
Feb 03, 2015 19:08 Report Abuse
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