Editor’s Note: This Xinhua article details a new, strikingly commercial version of a controversial social phenomenon increasingly widespread in China: mistresses. Many wealthy married men cannot resist the temptation to find a young mistress, and many young girls cannot resist the allure of the material comfort these men can offer. This article discusses the appearance of online agencies introducing hopeful mistresses-to-be.

The recent appearance of online “College Concubine Agencies” has shocked China’s internet community. These “agencies” claim to represent nearly all universities in Beijing and Shanghai, and even provide convenient pricing guides.

Online posts have incited hot debates and many netizens are arguing about whether this is progress or a sign of society’s decline. Not long ago, Beijing police department investigators unraveled the case of the “College Concubine Agency,” which began when the agency’s mysterious “Professor Chen” began posting ads online.

Online “Mistress Agency”: Prices put on Female College Students

Rates for Beijing Mistress Agencies are a shocking 100,000 to 650,000 RMB! The sudden appearance of ads for “Mistress Agencies” has rapidly become an intense topic of discussion for Chinese netizens across the country.

A study by “China Online“ journalists found that these ads are posted in picture format, containing a business card and an A4-sized piece of paper. Business cards for one “Mistress Agency” stated, “Representing all Shanghai Universities.” “Classmate Ding” of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics “ was listed as the contact person. Under Classmate Ding’s cell and email were the words, “If You Are the One,” the name of a popular Chinese dating show.

An A4-sized sheet of paper underneath the business card contained a detailed price sheet categorized by school type: top universities, average universities and art schools. Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai Normal University and 12 other universities were listed. “Processing” fees ranged from the pricier 300,000 to 500,000 RMB to the more economical 20,000 to 30,000 RMB per year.

Underneath the price sheet, a note from classmate Ding assures potential customers, “Student cards are provided for currently enrolled students, and we can test students for advanced math and/or calculus levels, Level 4-6 spoken English and translation skills, and other academic abilities based on your requests. We provide diplomas for college graduates whose authenticity you can verify on the Ministry of Education website.”

Another company’s post was nearly identical, only changing the first line of the business card to, “Representative for all Beijing Universities” and switching “Classmate Ding” to “Professor Chen, Beijing Institute of Technology Foreign Languages Institute.” The post listed “standard prices” for girls at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University, and 14 other top universities and art schools. For a Tsinghua University girl, annual fees ranged from 400,000 to 600,000 RMB. Yearly rates for a girl from the Central Academy of Theater were listed at 450,000 to 650,000 RMB.

“What a load of trash! Shameless!” were the words of one commenter. User “City Hunter” only commented, “Speechless.” User “thgh” said, “How can 5,000 years of cultural history have no impact on modern Chinese people?”

Investigators: Prying Open the “Concubine Agency”

“We discovered some of these posts this March while surfing online,” Yang Jianhua, the head of the investigation stated. “One was posted by someone calling himself a university professor. If this was really a professor introducing students as mistresses, that’s obviously a serious ethical problem.” The case immediately attracted the police department’s attention.

First, the Beijing police conducted investigations on 14 university campuses, searching for the mysterious “Professor Chen.” He was nowhere to be found.

The police managed to obtain a secretly filmed video in which “Professor Chen” appeared as a middle-aged man wearing glasses. “Professor Chen” said that his “customers” are all “successful people” he came across as they registered for classes. He then unabashedly says, “Yearly prices range from 50,000 to 650,000 RMB. We can discuss the exact price after you have met with the girls in person.”

Investigators were eventually able to pinpoint Professor Chen’s address and real information. Because Professor Chen had stated that female college students were continuously coming to him to apply for positions, the police decided to closely monitor his activities. For several consecutive days, he just holed up at home. No one contacted him.

On April 1, the police summoned Professor Chen to their office. During the interrogation which ensued, Professor Chen refused to admit to or even discuss anything related to the online posts, claiming he had been framed. When the police asked him why he would meet with the so-called “job candidates” he replied, “I just meet with them to make friends and start looking for a marriage partner.“

According to police reports, “Professor Chen” is an unemployed 45-year-old divorcé living in Beijing. Investigators discovered that his apartment was covered in “pretty lady” magazines. “At least 10 stacks of them, each over a meter high. Some of the girls’ pictures had even been carefully cut out.”

Police also found nude photographs of girls on his computer and camera. “Professor Chen” claimed that the girls in the pictures were his ex-girlfriends and that this type of photography was just a “personal hobby.”

Currently, “Professor Chen” is being held for suspicion of crimes including coercing others into prostitution. Police did not find any college students involved in these activities during the course of the investigation. However, this is not an isolated case and reports about similar scandals have been widely publicized both in China and abroad. The real mystery that remains is: how rampant are such cases and can the police truly stamp out such a business and protect young, female college students?
 

Source: news.xinhuanet.com
 

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