The business of female desire in China
What a production with hunky male dancers tells us about China’s booming ‘she economy’.
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Male dancers in hanfu robes performing in Ode to Spring Breeze.
PHOTO: QILING DANCE/WECHAT
“Wow, eight-pack,” the woman in the next seat gasped softly to herself, as a male dancer ripped off his shirt with a theatrical flourish, revealing a set of sculpted abdominal muscles.
It was the first act of a modern dance production called Tan Chunfeng, or Ode To Spring Breeze, and the audience of about 1,300 in a Beijing theatre, overwhelmingly female, was just beginning to warm to the novel spectacle.
