Sim Chi Yin—VII Photo for ChinaFile
Li Congli, originally from the mainland, sells fish at the busiest market in Kinmen, in Jincheng town. She is one of about 2,000 lupei, or mainland Chinese women, who have married Taiwanese men and moved to Kinmen. She asked a matchmaker to introduce her to her current husband, a worker in Kinmen’s famous sorghum liquor factory—the cash cow in the island’s economy.
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Li Congli, originally from the mainland, sells fish at the busiest market in Kinmen, in Jincheng town. She is one of about 2,000 lupei, or mainland Chinese women, who have married Taiwanese men and moved to Kinmen. She asked a matchmaker to introduce her to her current husband, a worker in Kinmen’s famous sorghum liquor factory—the cash cow in the island’s economy.