In China, the anxious lap up advice to avoid being 'leftover women'
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Beijing
EVERY evening, Liang Xuemeng goes online to read the latest postings from Ayawawa, one of China's most popular advice columnists.
"I've learned a lot from Ayawawa," said Ms Liang, 29, an office clerk in Beijing. "I wish I'd started following her before my first marriage failed." Ayawawa is the online name of Yang Bingyang, one of several online advice dispensers who have won celebrity in China by tapping into urban women's anxieties about finding a man to marry.
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