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Sunday, January 9, 2011

LA TIMES ON GOLDEN CANARIES OF CHINA - MISTRESSHOOD IS BACK IN BOOMTIME

"Concubines were status symbols in imperial China. After the Communists took power, they sought to root out such bourgeois evils, even as Chairman Mao Tse-tung reportedly kept a harem of peasant women into his old age.

Now, mistresses have become a must-have for party officials, bureaucrats and businessmen.

"We are in a commodity economy," says retired Shanghai University sociologist Liu Dalin.

"Work, technology, love, beauty, power -- it's all tradable."

"So-called concubine villages -- places where lotharios keep "second wives" in comfort and seclusion -- are now spread across the nation, in booming cities such as Dongguan, Chengdu and Shanghai...." Don Lee, LA TIMES

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