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Could polyamory be the solution to China’s gender imbalance? The New York Times’s Sinosphere blog reports that one economist’s proposal to that effect hasbecome a viral sensation on the Chinese internet.
Xie Zuoshi, a professor at the Zhejing University of Finance and Economics, recently proposed on his blog that a solution to China’s surplus of single men would be to allow women to marry more than one husband. The proposal has provoked a furious backlash from readers who accuse him of “violating traditional morality,” forcing a fed-up Xie to clarify that he was not proposing that plural marriage be mandatory …. http://www.slate.com