I will say there is the odd exception. Your wife seems to be one of them. However, generally speaking, any man interested in a Chinese woman better have a super fat wallet.

Money comes first with them, anything else is of little concern.

We went to meet the wife on her lunch break today. Me in shorts and tee-shirt and Esther the same, and we were both freezing-it had suddenly gorn from 80odd to cold. So I bought me and the girl 3 chicken burgers at 5yuan each from an up-market street seller. We went to sit in KFC, where the wife fed the girl her burger and I ate my unaided. Then wife went back to work stopping at a supermarket on the way in order to save money and buy herself two yuan-worth of bingzi. Yes, she is naturally careful with money.