Chinese Matchmaker: OFF THE WIRE
The Soviet Union's much-publicized foray into the world of private enterprise has culminated in the opening of Moscow's first pay toilet, which costs 32 cents. A Highway Patrol officer lost his job for repeatedly appearing naked at the windows of his home in Santa Barbara, Calif.To celebrate Dublin's 1,000th birthday, thousands of Dubliners got a free drink: a bottle of milk from the dairy board.A Chinese matchmaker complains that many Beijing women...
Chinese Matchmaker: We're so happy we married our own Ting Tongs,
Sunwoman
Real-life couples laugh off Little Britain's jibes TING TONG is the latest outrageous character to join Little Britain.When lonely Brit Dudley ordered a svelte Thai bride, he was more than disappointed when Ting Tong Macadangdang arrived.The lumpy, unattractive she-male was not the slender vision of oriental womanhood he had ordered on the internet. Although Ting Tong, with Dudley, right, is a caricature, the scenario has a grain of truth - the number of women admitted...
Chinese Matchmaker: We're so happy we married our own Ting Tongs,
Sunwoman
Real-life couples laugh off Little Britain's jibes TING TONG is the latest outrageous character to join Little Britain.When lonely Brit Dudley ordered a svelte Thai bride, he was more than disappointed when Ting Tong Macadangdang arrived.The lumpy, unattractive she-male was not the slender vision of oriental womanhood he had ordered on the internet. Although Ting Tong, with Dudley, right, is a caricature, the scenario has a grain of truth - the number of women admitted...
Today's Chinese Matchmaker Arranges Housing Swaps, Not Marriages
Fan Shuhua is a modern-day Chinese matchmaker. She sits in a booth in a Peking park, arranging not marriages but housing swaps.Her clients come from the legions of city-dwellers who want to get out of a miserable housing situation--people with a wearying commute to work, people living in unheated fifth-floor walk-ups, people who have no school nearby, no place to shop.Fan, using a small file of index cards, notes where each applicant lives and what each needs, or dreams of getting....
Chinese Matchmaker: MEMORIES OF A `LOST' COMMUNITY OF CHINESE PEOPLE
When Song Wong was a child, it was her job to light the incense in respect to the kitchen god, the outside god, the front door god and other deities each morning and evening in the tiny Buddhist temple on the second floor of the building next to her home on Santa Rosa's Second Street.Song Wong Bourbeau, now 85, stood before the temple altar again Friday, in the gallery of the Sonoma County Museum, where it was reconstructed for the current historical exhibit. It was covered...
