This article about a modern age gold-digger grabbed my attention, for obvious reasons, as it fits in well with a stereotype that I have now developed as a result of my experience being married to a Chinese born wife.
This stereotype is neither politically correct nor fair, but unfortunately it is what it is, and stories like the one below only add fuel to my admittedly irrational conviction.
My saga has unfortunately gone from bad to worse, and I will elaborate on this when I have enough strength to, but for now what I can say is that I have not seen my son in almost a month.
In any case, I consider the woman in this article to be an extreme version of a typical Chinese-born woman, and not something of an exception.
This woman, unattractive as she is, with very little English and not much else to distinguish her, is seeking the IMPOSSIBLY PERFECT husband, and she has left China to the USA to find him.
Her name is Luo Yufeng, or Fengjie, and she is a Chinese internet celebrity who left Shanghai in 2010 for America on a quest for a husband who meets her exacting standards.
He must have graduated from Yale or Harvard, or similar, have ambitions of world domination, cannot be Asian and preferably stands at 2m tall.
yes, you read correct. he cannot be Asian. Why? I don't know but this is not the first Chinese woman I have heard who has made that kind of statement.
Fengjie, 27, stands at just 1.3m but points out that she wears heels.Hmmmm?!
She came to national attention in China in 2009 when she started handing out flyers for an ideal husband.
She says she became the “hottest” star in China, known to 80 per cent of the population.
She claims she’s a political refugee but more likely had to do a runner when she made it known that none of the 300,000 Chinese men who she claims proposed marriage were good enough, or tall enough, for her.
Despite misgivings that she is a self-invented internet figment, she is real enough. As she stood near Wall St in New York for her photo opportunity, Chinese tourists stopped, pointed and began taking photos of her.
Chinese bloggers, who hate her, believe that she represents the worst of China to the world, and I suspect that they are spot on.
Fengjie and a group of her friends started handing out husband flyers at Manhattan subway stations last year.
She says she gets about three calls, texts or emails a day with offers of marriage.
No American man has so far made the cut. She says she works in a humble Brooklyn manicure salon, living in a tiny room, waiting for Mr Impossible.
“I am a very clever person,” she said through a translator.
Asked in what ways she was clever, she said: “I cannot give you the details.”
Asked what she offered her husband in return, she said: “I do not care. I do not consider that.”
This point alone underscores the attitude of this woman, and perhaps to a lesser extent the attitude of many Chinese born women, towards marriage. It seems to be a unilateral, one-sided exercise designed to raise her standing in the world, but she herself feels no responsibility to offer anything to her husband to be. It seems to be little more than emotional exploitation, at a grander scale.
She said she did not believe in sex before marriage but when asked whether she’d ever had sex before marriage, she blushed.
“My husband must be very clever and intelligent. He must have a willingness to be president of a nation, or own a very big business. I require my prospective husband to have graduated from a famous university.
“I myself am very good at politics.”
Asked to name the Australian prime minister, she could not.
Asked if she would consider an Australian husband, she said she would. But he would have to move to the US because she was in process of applying for refugee status.
But what if she just fell in love with a guy who had nothing? “I will not fall in love with a person like that,” she said.
“I will wait until I find that man.”
FENGJIE’S HUSBAND MUST BE:
Aged between 25 and 31
About two metres tall (a bit shorter is acceptable)
Must have a master’s degree from Harvard, Yale, Stanford or West Point
Must NOT be Asian
Must have a house and car
Can never have been married, and no kids
Intends to rule the world
