Chinese college undergraduate Cinderella will scream if Mom keeps comparing her to more successful classmates. Elf, a typical 20-something in China, must answer to an equal at work who has seized control of the office. N.D. is afraid to ask girls out because he lacks "achievements." Joanna let her studies rot while she indulged an Internet addiction. These are just a few of the stories from "Agony Uncle in China," a book based on Beijing's only English-language advice column. Columnist, journalist and author Ralph Jennings draws the stories from about 1,500 advice-seeking letters, through...