Shanghai Bride

The effects of the one-child policy, combined with a rapid revolution in China's values and lifestyle, have created an increasingly selective society of middle-class Shanghai women. For working-class men, finding a wife is a quest that requires money, time and the strength to withstand countless disappointments. SHANGHAI BRIDE is a rare portrait of ordinary people in an extraordinary social predicament, a window on the materialistic and cutthroat nature of Shanghai's marriage market.