The Shanghai Bride Price 1929?

As the Nationalists secured control of the country in 1929 they started enacting laws on various outdated customs. One problem was to deal with the rapid escalation in bride prices over the last decade that had left many families either destitute or unable to marry off their daughters while other families couldn’t afford to pay for their sons weddings. Regulation required. So, hence the new guidelines – $150 max to future son-in-laws with a discount to $100 bucks if the bride had been married before. Of course, whether this new regulation ever worked or not is another matter, as is whether or not anyone in China’s government today would think to step in and regulate bride prices?