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Becky Zhang

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As seen in: Harper's Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Point, The Student Life, Review 31
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Love in a Fallen City: Shanghai’s Marriage Market

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By Becky Zhang Verified
| The Paris Review Verified
By Becky Zhang May 29, 2026 The market, May 2015. Photograph by Reinhold Möller, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On a low-pollution Sunday last December, the weekend before Christmas, I headed to People’s Park on Shanghai’s Nanjing Road to visit the city’s so-called marriage market: a cluster of footpaths and lawns in the park’s northwest corner, where hundreds of parents gather each weekend to matchmake their unmarried adult children.
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Juvenile Impulse

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By Becky Zhang Verified
| Harper's Magazine Verified
Nell Freudenberger’s fiction has spanned settings as far-ranging as Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, French Polynesia, and New York City.
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Among the Hamilton Fish

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By Becky Zhang Verified
| The Point Verified
Among the Hamilton Fish | | Two summers ago, two colleagues and I tried to spend our lunch break in what we’d noticed was a miniature wading pool about ten minutes southwest of our office downtown. Eager and slightly embarrassed, we showed up in tankinis and one-pieces only to be denied entry by a guard: the pool, he advised, was only for children and their caretakers.
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