GPC in China--Counting Down the Days! I snapped this photo of a man and woman involved in some kind of intense discussion on a market street in Suzhou. I'm still curious to know what they were fussing about, but it's more fun to imagine. Relationships have been an interesting subject here in China. Chinese people have asked us if we know about the one-child policy, but haven't expressed any criticisms of it. I've made one good Chinese friend whose parents divorced early and who grew up in a step-family. Another new Chinese friend just broke up with his girlfriend because she wants to stay in Nanjing and he wants to live and work in Beijing. Based on conversations we've had with various Chinese divorced persons or children of divorce, it appears that what I'd read about previously is true: that divorce and its consequences are more common here. Yet, still on every radio station, Chinese pop songs weave the dream of a shared romance, and on the shores of Hang Zhou's West Lake, between the peacock pen and the tidal basin, we stumbled up on a plump Chinese lady bedecked in a Western-style white bridal gown, posing for a photographer in anticipation of a "white wedding" that is becoming more and more popular here.