Shanghai Husbands “Most Henpecked in China”

Shanghai Husbands “Most Henpecked in China”
Jul 11, 2013 By eChinacities.com

The term “henpecked husband”, given to husbands who are constantly on the end of their wives’ nagging, is something of a trending phenomenon in China these days. So trendy in fact that recently, an online listing of the cities in China with the most henpecked husbands was released.

The list showed that the top four cities were Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, and Huzhou in Zhejiang Province. Apparently, it is well-known that men in Shanghai not only love and spoil their wives, but are also afraid of them. However, they also seem to be perfectly fine with this situation.

In lieu of the rankings, many female netizens have expressed their envy towards Shanghai wives with their obedient husbands.

Source: Xinhua

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RachelDiD

I've never been to Shang Hai, but I've met plenty of women from there. All of whom were batshit insane. I am not even exaggerating--every ShangHainese woman I have met, no matter how long I knew her, ended up being a certifiable nut jobs, and that is by China standards of crazy. I won't go into all the details of all the crazy ladies. One of my ex-landladies was from Shanghai..it was a beautiful apartment, 15-20 minutes walking to where I worked. That is an unthinkably easy commute for Beijing--I almost moved out, just because my landlady was nuts. Among other things, she liked to just show up, unannounced, at any time; often, if a room in the apartment was empty, she would just stroll in with a perfect stranger in tow. So, you could be cooking dinner in your nighties with your female room mate, and your landlady could walk in with some man neither of you have ever met...who is embarrassed, because he just assumed she would have told his prospective room mates that he was coming. It made more than one dinner-and-movie nights pretty awkward. She once invited herself in one morning while I was in the shower, saw me in a towel (I did not have the master), and proceeded yell at me for having the gall to lock the apartment from the inside the previous day. Apparently, she had shown up, with someone to see a room in the apartment without telling either of her current tenants, and couldn't get in, because it was locked from the inside. She demanded to know why I didn't unlock the door for her. It was because I didn't hear her knocking...I was in the shower.

Jul 15, 2013 09:37 Report Abuse

techezee

Wait a tick, it says that the husbands are fine with this yet Shanghai has the highest percentage in regards to divorce rate. Could this be yet another cover-up of what is now becoming the largest shame on China in Chinese history?

Jul 12, 2013 10:27 Report Abuse

Guest239326

That presupposes the concept of shame.

Jul 12, 2013 12:15 Report Abuse

tigertiger

I had a shanghainese middle aged female student who told me that Shanghai men make the best husbands. To which I replied, 'You would say that, wouldn't you, you're Shanghainese.' To which she replied, 'Oh no! Shanghai women make the worst wives'. In Shanghai it is often the women who are running the small businesses. The husbands often stay at home and raise the kids, cook, etc. In our office we had a shanghai woman ayi. Not much good. She left and was replaced by her husband, and he was brilliant. He actually went around looking for things to clean.

Jul 12, 2013 09:59 Report Abuse