China's mighty trip over mistresses

[JackLuis]

As the Chinese open up to the world, there are some interesting changes.

A Woman spurned can be a terrible thing. But when a society is becoming freer, she can fuck up your whole nicely balanced Commissar gig.

Here are some examples.

The government last month jailed former railway minister Liu Zhijun for accepting kickbacks on purchase deals. Somehow, a directive sent to newspapers by the Party's Central Propaganda Bureau was leaked. It said: "All media are not to report or hype the news that Liu Zhijun had 18 mistresses."

Liu Zhihua, former vice mayor of Beijing, was accused of taking bribes worth $1.1m during the construction of stadiums and facilities for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. His mistress Wang Jianrui acted as conduit for channeling nearly 80 per cent of the bribes.

A senior navy officer was sentenced to death some years back after one of his mistresses, who bore him a baby, exposed his corrupt practices. Jiang, the mistress, wrote 58 letters to higher officials exposing the misdeeds of Wang Shouye, former Deputy Commander of the Chinese Navy, after he refused to pay the mother of his child support money. Wang later got a reprieve from execution from the court after he confessed his crimes and offered to help investigators with their work.

Wang Jiping, the former director of the Beijing local taxation bureau, was exposed after the mistresses of his deputy passed on information of wrongdoings by both Wang and a subordinate.

Xu Maiyong, the former vice mayor of the capital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, was executed for bribery and embezzlement worth more than $30m. The local media nicknamed him "Plenty Xu", saying he kept several mistresses.

'Comfort women'

What remains invisible are apartments and houses given to young "erni" - "second wives" in Chinese - by aging "sugar daddies". Entire residential colonies filled with "comfort women" have cropped up in outskirts of cities like Shenzhen. Contrast this situation with the 1950 Marriage Law, which outlawed the practice of keeping concubines.

Wonder if Burt is keeping Erni around for his charm?

 

[sr71plt]

This is an unfortunate use of the term "comfort women." Is this somewhere in the article or did you match the term to this article? Comfort women were women--usually women from a conquered country--forced into prostitution by the Japanese prior to and during WWII. Becoming a mistresses to rich and powerful men in China in the twenty-first century has nothing to do with comfort women, who often were raped repeatedly and over an extended time by whole units of Japnese soldiers in the field.

Would like to know when the Chinese Navy guy was sentenced to death for having a mistress. If it was during the Cultural Revolution, a whole lot more was involved than just that he had a mistress.

 

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[JackLuis]

This is an unfortunate use of the term "comfort women." Is this somewhere in the article or did you match the term to this article? Comfort women were women--usually women from a conquered country--forced into prostitution by the Japanese prior to and during WWII. Becoming a mistresses in China in the twenty-first century has nothing to do with comfort women.

Would like to know when the Chinese Navy guy was sentenced to death for having a mistress. If it was during the Cultural Revolution, a whole lot more was involved than just that he had a mistress.

It was a quote from the article, I just didn't 'quote' it.

I thought that having a bit of trim on the side, could be comfortable, actually.

If you read the article you will see that the internet is opening their society in many ways, not all of them subversive. And if the Government is watching their "Tweets" in order to find out what the people actually believe, rather than Telling Them What To Believe, I think China is progressing.

I wonder what a story about a how subdivision of "Comfort Women" could turn out? Or an apartment House that specializes in comforting the hard working executives of MegaCorp?

Or a man on a sales trip find himself recruited by an Overseas company and they put him up in a "Comfortable Company Hotel" in the countryside to spend the weekend before his interview?

 

[sr71plt]

It was a quote from the article, I just didn't 'quote' it.

OK, but sensitivities are high on the use and misuse of this term.

 

[JackLuis]

OK, but sensitivities are high on the use and misuse of this term.

So glad to have your Okay.

It did strike me as an odd use of the phrase, but you know how 'furriners' don't get the fine nuances.

 

[sr71plt]

*nevermind*

 

[R. Richard]

The government last month jailed former railway minister Liu Zhijun for accepting kickbacks on purchase deals. Somehow, a directive sent to newspapers by the Party's Central Propaganda Bureau was leaked. It said: "All media are not to report or hype the news that Liu Zhijun had 18 mistresses."

This is a porn site and if 18 mistresses aint a plot bunny, what is?

 

[sr71plt]

This is a porn site and if 18 mistresses aint a plot bunny, what is?

Yes, that was the basis of my "nevermind," posted here some time ago.

My issue was more with the misuse of the "comfort women" term. Jack cleared that up by saying it was the original article, not him, who made the connection.