"all the young girls have left home and work in shoe factories in zhejiang province so that they can send money home. they discover that place is better than our village so they get married there. -and don't come back. even when their parents are dying, they will only send back money and not come to say farewell." zhao says marriage in his village comes for a price. "if you want to marry a wife here, you have to prepare need about eight thousand dollars as dowry. but by the time you have earned that amount of money, you are already 50 or 60 years old and no one will marry you." >> once he was so desperate to find a spouse, he tried to buy one. "a friend of one of my relatives told me he would fix me a match and asked me for more than 600 dollars. ...i gave him that money and he found me a woman. but only a week later she ran away. after she ran away, i turned the dealer in to the police. i didn't get a wife and lost all my money." zhao's neighbor, yan hongshuang, is 34, but he, too expects to remain single. his 70-year-old father still works to support himself and his son. >> "what's