From her stakeout near the entrance of an H&M store in Joy City, a Beijing shopping mall, Yang Jing seemed lost in thought, twirling a strand of her auburn-tinted hair, tapping her nails on an aquamarine iPhone 4S. But her eyes kept moving. They tracked the clusters of young women zigzagging from Zara to Calvin Klein Jeans. They lingered on a face, a gesture, and then moved on, darting across the atrium, searching.
"This is a good place to hunt," she told me. "I always have good luck here."
For Yang, Joy City is not so much a consumer mecca as an urban Serengeti that she prowls for potential wives for some of China's richest bachelors. Yang, 28, is one of China's premier love hunters, a new breed of matchmaker that has proliferated in the country's economic boom. The company she works for, Diamond Love and Marriage, caters to China's nouveaux riches: men, and occasionally women, willing to pay tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars to outsource the search for their ideal spouse.
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"Perfect skin," she whispered. "Elegant face." When the woman walked into H&M, Yang intercepted her in the sweater aisle. "I'm so sorry to bother you," she said with a honeyed smile. "I'm a love hunter. Are you looking for love?" Full story...
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"This is a good place to hunt," she told me. "I always have good luck here."
For Yang, Joy City is not so much a consumer mecca as an urban Serengeti that she prowls for potential wives for some of China's richest bachelors. Yang, 28, is one of China's premier love hunters, a new breed of matchmaker that has proliferated in the country's economic boom. The company she works for, Diamond Love and Marriage, caters to China's nouveaux riches: men, and occasionally women, willing to pay tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars to outsource the search for their ideal spouse.
(...)
"Perfect skin," she whispered. "Elegant face." When the woman walked into H&M, Yang intercepted her in the sweater aisle. "I'm so sorry to bother you," she said with a honeyed smile. "I'm a love hunter. Are you looking for love?" Full story...
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