A Study on Remained Women in Modern Cities in China

Thousands of women who are in a certain age and want to marry are named remained women, or remained girls, in China, especially in modern cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Their demographical characters, reasons and results of being unmarried are focused and explained by society. The author use the qualitative research method to locate some remained women and give a vivid description of them. Through the designed interaction between the researcher and these remained women, some general but secret reason of being unmarried could be found. The description and reason are quite different from the common sense. Only realizing themselves and the reasons could they get married. The reason is, to their surprise, related to the attitude and practice to sexuality.