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Wish Lanterns by Alec Ash

4. Finding Their Way

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Dahai, Fred, Snail and Xiaoxiao have graduated.

Now they have to find their own way - a place to live, a job and ultimately a life partner. The pressure to marry is considerable - on both young men and women.

Continuing the stories of young Chinese lives, particularly those born under the one-child policy of the 1980s, as they seek to negotiate the expectations of those around them and their own inner desires for self-fulfilment.

Written by Alec Ash.

Read by David Seddon.

Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters.

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2016. Show less

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