A first-time visitor to China may be under the impression that things look complex and simple at the same time in that wonderful country. The street cartoons can not but remind me of the Soviet-era street propaganda. So who is painted as an object of ridicule in one of the world’s most dynamic economies? One of the caricatures features a young man and a girl sitting on a bench in the park. The young people are hugging and smooching. A mom at a nearby bench is apparently aghast witnessing an act of lewdness. She covers her son’s eyes with her hand so that he can not see shameful conduct. A couple of pensioners is seen fleeing the scene, indignation flushes their faces. The message of the cartoon is obvious: Billing and cooing in public is bad. And they do not kiss nor hug in Beijing. At least I have not seen any kissing or hugging in the streets of Beijing. Do chasteness and decency rule China?
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There are lots of newsstands in Beijing. They are rife with newspapers and magazines. The number of publications has risen tenfold over the last few years. But you will never find any newspapers or magazines with anything erotic on or under the cover. Not to mention pornography. To some extent, the attitude is quite understandable. The demographic problem in China is completely opposite to that in Russia. The number of the Chinese can defy one’s imagination, it already totals 1,300,000,000, around ten times as much as the population of Russia. Therefore, the government pursues a one-child policy i.e. a family is recommended to have one child only. A second child entails a sum of money payable to the state. The Chinese call it a “fine.” The amount of a fine is quite substantial, it currently stands at $1,200. A family is to pay the same fine for every newborn. The law does not apply to residents of the countryside if the first offspring is a girl. The girls are counted out, so to speak.
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