There are men in Shanghai? lol I keed I keed.

I've had similar discussions with women around China outside of Shanghai and most say that Shandong men are the best husbands by far. The stereotypical Shandong man is loyal and honest. There is even a Cantonese comedy film about the stereotypical Shandong man who goes to work in Hong Kong. (小山东到香港)
How can Professor Zhang Jiehai understand stereotypes of Shanghai men if he is only surveying women in Shanghai? I challenge Zhang to ask women in Shenzhen, Shenyang, Tianjin, and Wuhan what they think of Shanghai men. Also, his survey says western women think Shanghai men are the best husbands in the world. How many western women (excluding Sexy Beijing's "Su Fei") did he survey?

So, to summarise, Zhang has issues with foreign men sleeping with Chinese women and with Chinese women for asserting themselves. It all adds up to a quack with serious delusions about the state of his own adequacy.

That's pretty much what it sounds like to me. If there are western woman happily married to Shanghai men, great, but the conclusion that "the surveys indicate that many western women agreed that "Shanghai men are the best husbands of the world" made no sense...* until I saw who conducted the research. This is about as believable as the CASS study that somehow found not only that the United States was the least responsible country (of the ones that "count" anyway) but also that China was the most.

*(I mean seriously- regardless of the quality of Shanghai men, about which I have no opinion, I can't even imagine western women saying that New Yorkers or Parisians or Londoners are the best husbands in the world. It's just such a Chinese statement, like "oh, xxxxxx city is famous for beautiful women!"

weren't his statistics compiled in relation to what proportion of husbands wash their wives smalls? Or was that another mind numbing survey?

well, i really don't beleive this bull-shit survey. I think this person doesn't really travel that much and deson't see many guys. In general. Shanghai men are cheap (they pretend they are rich, but actually not!), selfish. always think they are all that! I will not marry to a Shanghaiese men in million years!

This is the kind of "news" that got to be read backward: Shanghainese men around Dr. Zhang (himself included) feel inadequate in front of not just Western women but Chinese women from other regions as well. It's like whistling in the dark---especially when the whistler is pissing, too, as one is wont to find so often in this charming city. Sad, really.

I dont know any Western women who have Shanghainese boyfriends or husbands. That might say something.
Anyone who designs a survey to make such a dubious conclusion as this obviously has a confidence problem, which probably says a lot about the merits of this conclusion.
If any group of men has reason to resent another group of men taking their women, the first step is to ask the women why they are freely making the choice of the other group of men. And then, rather than criticise, try copying.

I went through quite a bit of his book in another Chinese site, well you know, it copies a large chunk of it. I understand the problem with this kind of surveys, but I consider it, well, not a terribly convincing work, but the first work ever on this subject. That's better than nothing.