Bulldogcakes
11-22-2005, 05:23 PM
<p> Link (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-mistress22nov22,0,6002074.story?coll=la-home-headlines)</p><p>China's economic boom has led to a revival of the 2-millennium-old
tradition of "golden canaries," so called because, like the showcase
birds, mistresses here are often pampered, housed in love nests and
taken out at the pleasure of their "masters."<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Now, mistresses have become a must-have for party officials, bureaucrats and businessmen.<br />
<br />
"We are in a commodity economy," says retired Shanghai University
sociologist Liu Dalin. "Work, technology, love, beauty, power — it's
all tradable." <br />
<br />
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. <br />
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tradition of "golden canaries," so called because, like the showcase
birds, mistresses here are often pampered, housed in love nests and
taken out at the pleasure of their "masters."<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Now, mistresses have become a must-have for party officials, bureaucrats and businessmen.<br />
<br />
"We are in a commodity economy," says retired Shanghai University
sociologist Liu Dalin. "Work, technology, love, beauty, power — it's
all tradable." <br />
<br />
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. <br />
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
http://www.silentpix.com/hottub/bulldogsig/rotate.php
My site Bully Baby (http://bulldogcakes.tripod.com/index.html)
"A dog recently saved his owner's life, because he had been trained to dial 911. Unfortunately, operators had trouble finding the address 'woof, woof.'"-Norm MacDonald