MCLC: billionaire pays 5 million for 'pure wife'

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: billionaire pays 5 million for 'pure wife'
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This goes to show you that Yu Hua's novel Brothers is hard realism, not
satirical farce.

Kirk 

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Source: China Smack
(5/24/12):http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/chinese-billionaire-pays-5
-million-to-find-a-pure-wife.html

Chinese Billionaire Pays 5 Million to Find a ŒPure Wife¹
By Peter Barefoot <http://www.chinasmack.com/author/peter-barefoot>

>From iFeng 
<http://news.ifeng.com/photo/hdsociety/detail_2012_05/21/14687652_0.shtml>:

Billionaire Offers 5 Million RMB Seeking ³Pure Wife²

A ³Multi-Millionaire Seeking Spouses in Ten Cities Show² debuted in
Guangzhou on 20th. According to the organizer, 320 beauties emerged from
2,800 applicants, and engaged in fierce competition in the Garden Hotel.
One self-proclaimed billionaire even offered a whopping astronomical price
in his search for a lovely wife, even making the bold suggestion that the
matchmaker would get 50,000 yuan in cash after he and the lady have their
first date.

At this low profile match-making event, this reporter noticed a mysterious
billionaire. He came to Guangzhou this April and asked this singles club
to find a suitable girlfriend for him, paying 5 million yuan to have the
club find for him in 10 cities nationwide his other half. His terms are as
follows: age: 20-26 years old; height: 162-170cm; weight: within 50kg;
education: above junior college education; have a simple family condition,
good-looking, good figure, body pure (no sexual experience). And yet his
background information shows that he is: divorced, not yet 50 years old,
billionaire, well-known Chinese entrepreneur, enjoys golf, body¹s healthy
and strong.

With regards to the ³body pure² requirement, most applicants say they can
understand and accept it. Only one expressed that, ³If an examinations is
needed, that would be a little insulting.²  But there was also another
applicant who frankly said, it¹s not difficult to conduct maidenhead/hymen
reconstruction at medical institutions, so this sort of requirement isn¹t
very meaningful. 

For the sake of this billionaire, the organizer has set up a special
³Talent Scout Award², which claims: if you know a girl who meets the
standards, please recommend her to ³Chinese Entrepreneurs Single Club², if
the recommended girl and the mister have their first date, you will get
50,000 yuan in cash or gifts of the same value, and if the girl
successfully begins a relationship with the mister, you will get a
commercial residential apartment worth 3 million yuan from the mister.
Photo is of the female applicants.