Comments on: Paul Responds to Recent Article on Abortion http://www.asiahealthcareblog.com/2009/10/14/1623/ Exploring the intersection of investment and development, in Asia Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:37:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Damjan_D http://www.asiahealthcareblog.com/2009/10/14/1623/comment-page-1/#comment-3535 Damjan_D Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:49:49 +0000 http://www.asiahealthcareblog.com/2009/10/14/1623/#comment-3535 There are a lot of strong points here. I particularly like that you touch on the tumult of the Cultural Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the impact that the era's militarization, violence, and social tumult had on China's social psyche. Everything about the circumstance of that time, down to the the blue and green fatigue dress code encourage the sexual neutering of an entire nation. I wonder, too, if the popularity of romance novels among China's young is a symptom of the generation's reaction to the repressed romanticism of their elders. As for a state sponsored campaign of intimacy, I can only say that the CCTV commercials would be epic. There are a lot of strong points here. I particularly like that you touch on the tumult of the Cultural Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the impact that the era's militarization, violence, and social tumult had on China's social psyche. Everything about the circumstance of that time, down to the the blue and green fatigue dress code encourage the sexual neutering of an entire nation. I wonder, too, if the popularity of romance novels among China's young is a symptom of the generation's reaction to the repressed romanticism of their elders.

As for a state sponsored campaign of intimacy, I can only say that the CCTV commercials would be epic.

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