The Marriages of Only Daughters

Since the one-child policy was introduced in 1980, only children have become a distinct group, and more and more people are paying attention to the lives of only daughters. Miao Fei is an only child. She works as a lawyer at a law firm in the provincial capital. A graduate of a prestigious university with a master’s degree, she is both beautiful and intelligent, and has become a member of society’s elite. She longs to get married, but the marital troubles her close friends have faced make her hesitate: fighting over the right to choose a child’s surname, deciding whose family to spend the Spring Festival with, and a whole host of other conflicts. Can they find a model of marriage that makes everyone happy? Bring a husband into the wife’s family? A “two-household marriage”? Or perhaps invent an entirely new arrangement…