A 45 year old man in Jiangmen was arrested recently after his four wives that he’d been keeping from each other for 20 years found out about each other.
According to ecns, the Guangdong resident, surnamed Chen, married his first wife, also surnamed Chen, in 1992. Then, in 1994, he married not one, but two other women, Wang and Zhang who he had children with, a boy and a girl, respectively.
After a 13 year hiatus, (polygamy is tiring work), he added another wife to his collection, a woman surnamed Liang.
It all came to a head when Wang discovered that Chen was having an ‘affair’ with Liang; at first, she was willing to forgive her husband for the sake of their child. However, after she confronted Liang, the latter produced a marriage certificate and Chen’s lies came crashing down.
Police authorities explained that he had managed to get away with it because his older marriage certificates weren’t uploaded onto the national database. This isn’t the first time loopholes of this kind have occurred- in May this year, a Beijing man was sentenced to a year in prison after marrying three different women in the space of eighteen months, whilst last year in Shanghai, 50 year old Zhao got 18 months for having four wives simultaneously.
Source: ecns.com
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Keywords: Polygamist Caught Out after 20 Years and Four Wives
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After abortion, infanticide, over-education, xiao-sans and xiao qie (second wives), we foreigners are the number one reason there are not enough Chinese women for Chinese men to marry.
Aug 01, 2014 09:43 Report Abuse
Was just wondering how the man managed his schedule to be with his different wives ... lol
Jul 27, 2014 19:57 Report Abuse
LOL. I was wondering when the 'religion' angle would be used to try and justify more than one wife. Does anyone know ANY woman who would be happy with a husband who had second or third wife?
Jul 25, 2014 23:23 Report Abuse
you mean lets treat women as object that you can purchase if you are rich enough.... yeah that's some nice values right there lol.... and then you wonder why they go date foreign man.
Jul 25, 2014 09:14 Report Abuse
whats wrong with polygamy? if he can afford, and treat all of them nice..and they can live with each other nicely...whats the problem in it? alot of different cultures allow it around the world, no big deal in it...the point is if he can treat them all nice and support them evenly. but on the other hand, baijiu and hookers seems like a better option...lol
Jul 24, 2014 16:25 Report Abuse
Hi Guest2511236, where are do you come from? You will Chinses? Or the foreigners firends? Are you in the? You will the many wifes too? My is the native speakers. Haha. Nice!
Jul 24, 2014 15:59 Report Abuse
LOL. With your attitude to women, you will be lucky to get one who accepts your ideas about girls and women in general, especially if you think that men can 'own' women, or they are the property of men.
Jul 24, 2014 15:41 Report Abuse
LOL and Chinese guys accuse foreign guys of 'stealing' Chinese women
Jul 23, 2014 18:17 Report Abuse
yaaa....they dont realise, we are just dealing with the rebels and the leftovers....lol
Jul 24, 2014 16:27 Report Abuse