Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: China
Dennis Prager writes really movingly about the unfairness of a world that elevates Palestinians to “chief victims,” while ignoring the murderous horror that the Chinese have visited on the Tibetans. I doubt we’ll see a principled stand that has the world boycott the Olympics, but we should. I’m no fan of Jimmy Carter, but he [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2007 | Filed under: China, Women
In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, a very common expression was that “the rich get richer and the poor get children.” In China, that’s been turned on its head. Not only do the rich (probably) get richer, they also get the children — and their Communist overlords are cracking down:
Rich Chinese [...]
Bookworm on Sep 10 2007 | Filed under: China
This is what happens in societies that don’t value women:
Her relatives had always described her as a colicky baby.
When Luo Cuifen was 26, she found out a likely reason why.
Doctors discovered more than two dozen sewing needles embedded in her body, some piercing her vital organs.
X-rays of her head and torso look like a dart [...]
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