Topic: news Happy Endings in China Not Just for Men

The face thing with money for the Chinese guy doesn't surprise me at all. What you understand and wrote is exactly the scene for many couples in Hong Kong - I'm a local guy - and people keep on questioning why the guy should pay instead of going Dutch. I can't speak of mainland China at all, tho it's my origin, but I can say quite a few HK guys are quite non-conventional by your standard. Well, the sexism thing in the 6th paragraph (take a look plz), I don't even think it's specific to the Chinese culture. I think it's rather the nature of many men in many patriarchal societies. For one thing, I also heard of western men telling me, in online forums, that they wouldn't want to spend the money of their significant others (women). In a patriarchy like this, the male role hasn't changed with the changing status of women in both western and Chinese societies. So, that's why, I consider it an illusion to say Chinese men want face. No, Chinese men and western men both want face (Chinese sense) after all.