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Word: whangpoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Premarital sex is taboo in China, and the expression of love and affection is extremely restrained. You rarely see boys and girls together, although there were a few couples strolling on Chung-shan Road along the Whangpoo River in Shanghai. Boy meets girl at school or on the job, or at a people's culture palace. All the Chinese men I met said that that was where they had met their wives. They laughed when I asked them if they ever said "I love you" to their wives. "That is not necessary," answered the editor of a Shanghai newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reporter's Second Looks | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

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