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She was nothing like the other Web entrepreneurs I’ve come to know in China.

For one thing, the top ranks of Chinese technology are dominated by men.

For years, village matchmakers and parents, factory bosses and Communist cadres efficiently paired off young people with minimum participation from the bride and groom.“Gong’s class was on the fourth floor.” Her mother was undeterred: “School was her only way out.We didn’t want her to work in the fields like us.”The medical bills drove the family into debt, which tormented Gong.But those practices merely reinforced existing barriers, and for vast numbers of people the collision of love, choice, and money was a bewildering new problem.In much of the world, marriage is in decline; the proportion of married American adults is now fifty-one per cent, the lowest ever recorded.