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Lonely hearts beware: when money talks, is it the language of love?

“I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle” – that was one Chinese woman’s take on the ideal mate when she appeared on a matchmaking TV show. Many viewers were shocked by her materialistic response in 2010, but the sense that money can buy love persists today. A Chinese man who recently gave his girlfriend a gigantic heart-shaped bouquet of “flowers” made from 334,000 yuan (US$52,300) in banknotes triggered a heated online debate on the danger of...

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