These "Yangtze River Females" (usually about 45 year olds) make good wives and are readily available, quite pretty and have good teeth, as long as you can ask a student to put a free advert in mandarin on the internet for you. I understand there's been some improvement to the one year family L Visa. If you marry a YRF, you can now get a 2 year residence permit, renewable in China, to boot. Before that the constant border runs used to put many FT's off of matrimony