Author Archives: Paul

Paul Responds to Recent Article on Abortion

Written by Paul. Posted on October 14, 2009. Filed under China, Public Health. 1 Comment.
Paul Steele has contributed several stories to AHCB, including the popular China Quarantine Blog. He has also published essays in Japanese dealing with issues of sexual violence in Japanese culture. Below he responds to my recent essay [How] America is Exacerbating China’s Abortion Problems. Damjan, I thought your most recent article was well well written.   [...]

Hotel Beijing

Written by Paul. Posted on October 4, 2009. Filed under China, Public Health. 1 Comment.
"...doctors taunted my dedication by smoking, smiling and nodding their approval from a circle of chairs in the sun."
By Paul Steele ufpg7kn24s When I was taken into quarantine it was impossible to estimate the extent of the government’s commitment to the exercise.  Doctors and their questionnaires appeared official, but random implementation and chaotic execution of the process suggested opportunity for the reassuring degree of negotiation typical of grass roots enforced, Chinese bureaucracy. Beijing’s [...]