Certain Shanghai girls are known for snagging sugar daddies to finance a lavish lifestyle, though the ultimate goal is marriage and children with an affluent man. At her wedding, only an extravagant wardrobe will do, including gowns like this one by designer Tsai Meiyue.
I recently returned from another fall season in Shanghai—that exotic, endlessly fascinating, and ever-changing city. I’ve compiled the best of the stories and pictures I gathered about social life and travels in China in diary form, and I’ll be posting them from time to time. Here’s another:
BESTSELLING BOOK SHANGHAI GIRLS UNCENSORED AND UNSENTIMENTAL: HOW TO MARRY UP AND STAY THERE
Shanghai was abuzz over Shanghai Girls Uncensored and Unsentimental: How to Marry Up and Stay There, a book by Korean-American author Mina Choi Hanbury-Tenison. As the New York City of China, Shanghai is unlike the rest of the country, and so are its women.
According to Mina, Shanghai girls have a reputation for being divas—opportunistic and materialistic, high maintenance, and focused on upward mobility, primarily through marriage. You’ll be trampled if you’re in their way, whether they’re zeroing in on a promotion, a man, or your man. Mina’s book represents the first time that one of these formidable specimens has talked on the record.
Shanghai Girls Uncensored and Unsentimental—the cover design is as eye-catching as its title.
Author Mina Choi Hanbury-Tenison.
