Liz Tuccillo: Beijing as seen in the middle of great change and great transformation. You have the old battling right against the new and you have not just the city in the middle of a great physical transformation but you also have the way people live and date and love the changing at a rapid phase as well. How has the world trade organization affected your dating?
Henry: Local Chinese are more exposed to the ways of the Western world. Valentines Day didn’t exist in China before. Sending flowers to a girl, little gestures like that to a lady. The influences are there.
Chen Chang: We started to have a bar, have a club. We can go out and drink and then yell. I think it will be even more independent having more freedom in and having more choice.
Male: There’s been a change in the way they dress, the way they present themselves to the world. I think a lot of them have to do with foreign magazines coming in.
Chen Chang: Ten years before we don’t have any big brands in Beijing but now we have everything.
Male: So suddenly Chinese women have access to the latest and grace for my kind and we’ve got tuned in and whatever.
Liz Tuccillo: The world has come to China and now women are able to understand what’s been going on other places of the world. So have you guys had to step up your game.
Anson: It’s not our game. It’s about the Chinese gentlemen’s game.
Liz Tuccillo: So we’re seeing a direct correlation between the world trade organization, economics and your sex lives.
Male: Chinese going through a lot of different revolutions right now. Economic, social, sexual, you know it’s a very interesting time to be here.
Male: A girlfriend of mine came to me saying do you know this “girlfriend exchange” thing?
Liz Tuccillo: So you say that there’s swinging in Beijing.
Male: A lot also internet as well.
Liz Tuccillo: What do you mean?
Male: Like you know you meet people on the internet and you start having these casual sex things.
Male: Even your heart. What you’re talking in your heart.
Male: We go to an internet café.
Liz Tuccillo: From the time you type to the time you’re having sex, how long?
Male: Well, about 10 minutes. What are mutual goal is.
Liz Tuccillo: Within 10 minutes. Typing, sex.
Male: And he joked that this is the person sitting on the other side of him in the internet café.
Liz Tuccillo: If there’s all the Chinese women have gone to France and Italy and had sex with Italian or French man and then they come back to China, what would they say?
Male: Well, no one has actually come back.
Liz Tuccillo: So what is just a free market that was influencing single women in China or is there something even more powerful going on?
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