The Mournful Call of the Nestless Shanghai Male

摘要

The Chinese have a proverb that says, "Build a nest before attracting the phoenix." Sticking with tradition, Tank Zhao had begun looking for an apartment as he planned to marry his girlfriend next year. Now the 28-year-old software engineer from Fujian province finds himself frozen out of Shanghai's real estate market by a new prohibition on single nonresidents buying property in China's second most populous city.