China’s Sexual Revolution – Part 5/5

July 17, 2010

Most prostitutes are village girls and have no idea about safe sex. This is causing an increase in HIV. Many of the men refuse to wear condoms. Sometimes, when the girl says no, the paying customer will rape her.

The sexual revolution in China is a fragile one. While the new China supports it, the old China is afraid of these changes. Adultery and divorce are on the rise. Kids are leaving home. There is a growing generation gap.

One older Chinese man says that China is not used to this. Under pressure from the older generation, the police must crack down, raid bordellos and arrest prostitutes.

However, now that China’s sexual revolution is in the open, it will be hard to stop. At first, the government tried to stop what was going on but soon backed off. And many parents, who grew up in Mao’s puritanical era, don’t want their children to experience the same repression.

These changes are talking place while women are gaining power and many families now value having female children. Few want to return to the way things were.

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China’s Sexual Revolution – Part 4/5

July 16, 2010

China’s one-child policy, created to control the growth of the population,  is complicating the sexual revolution.

By ending the pressure on Chinese women to have many children, this has liberated them to do other things. Now Chinese women have the freedom to get an education and find a paying job.

The one-child policy also created another problem. Since Chinese families have always favored having boys, many women get abortions when the fetus is identified as a female. This has led to a growing imbalance between the number of men and women.

Now, millions of poor men cannot find a mate. With so many poor men unable to find women, gangs and crime have become a problem.

China now has the fastest growing sex industry in the world. A decade ago, there was little prostitution Today, there are many brothels masquerading as massage parlors. Some are modeled after the brothels in Thailand.

Capitalism has arrived in all its guises, and the same problems the US has with sex slavery and drugs is now a problem for China too.

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China’s Going Green Challenge

July 15, 2010

For decades, the world watched the American lifestyle through TV and the Internet.  Now, the citizens of nations like China and India want the same lifestyle.  The downside is that having 1.3 billion people living like Americans means five times the pollution America produces.

It isn’t as if China is not doing what it can to go green and reduce pollution.  The problem is the number of people who expect a better standard of living.  China has also promised 700 million rural Chinese that the electric grid is coming their way and along with it electricity-dependent home appliances. Source: Huffington Post

Even with inefficient factories, like Guangzhou Steel, being closed and replacing more than a thousand older coal-burning power plants (like those still used in the US), China worries that the demand by Chinese consumers will foil China’s goals to reduce carbon emissions. Source: New York Times

If Americans are unwilling to give up their energy dependent lifestyles, why should the Chinese do without?

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China’s Latest Labor Movement

July 14, 2010

“The China Beat”, Where to Begin: New Perspectives on Chinese Labor by Mark W. Frazier, offers a long post about what’s taking place in China’s labor movement.

Frazier says, “It is clear that migrant workers have gained a level of organizational sophistication and political awareness to make demands for higher wages, better working conditions, and in some cases, elections for union representatives.”

There are several books mentioned in the post.

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt by Ching Kwan Lee.

The Chinese Worker after Socialism by William Hurst

The China Price by Alexander Harney

Some Assembly Required by Calvin Chen

State’s Gains, Labor’s Losses by Dorothy Solinger

Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang.

The changes started with the land reforms under Mao, continued with Deng Xiaoping when he said, “Getting Rich is Glorious” introducing capitalism to China, then the growth of an urban middle class, and now capitalist exploitation of the worker while China’s Sexual Revolution is going strong.

However, what if the labor protests in China are from job losses caused by the global economic crises. People are angry.  After all, millions have lost jobs already.

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The Coming Apple-Google War in China

July 14, 2010

No wonder Google backed down on their threats to pull out of China.  There’s much money to be made from China’s growing middle class, but Google’s headaches are not over yet thanks to Apple.

The China Tracker, Paul Denlinger, reports that Apple has opened its second store in China’s Shanghai Pudong district, and it features the world’s largest pieces of curved glass. In addition, Apple plans to open 25 more stores in China by the end of 2011 where computers, iPhones, iPods, and iPads will be sold.

Why does this mean war between Google and Apple? Because Google is selling its Android platform (mobile phones, etc) to the Chinese consumer, but Apple and other competitors have a sweater deal. You’ll need to read Denlinger to learn the details.

Apple’s edge comes from having most of its products assembled in China and a deal with China Unicom to buy its products so Apple has no risk since there is a no return policy. The risk belongs to Unicom.

In fact, Google’s decision to confront China’s government over censorship was not a good idea since it has tainted Google’s image in China while increasing it in the West where the Chinese consumer does not shop. Meanwhile, the winner will probably be the Chinese middle class when these two giants have a price war to see who wins.

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