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Here is the BBC coverage of "Changing China."
My favorite aspect of the NEw China is its nifty synthesis of old style Communism and go-go capitalism, which skips that awkward age -- with its backward bourgeois values -- Enlightenment humanism -- and its invention of the mother child bond.
Under Mao, mothers were encouraged to serve the Motherland by giving their children to communal boarding kindergartens and nursery schools. During the Cultural Revolution, moms could spend all night at self criticism sessions as well as at destroy your neighborhood revisionist party. Mao felt that the Chinese family was a remnant of the feudal past and should be replaced with communal investments and communal life.
But now, there are boarding kindergartens and nursery schools in Beijing and Shanghai for the go go capitalist mom who needs to spend more time at her start up. Your toddler or preschooler would come home on Friday nights, and are sent back with clean sheets and five changes of clothing to school Monday morning.
There are days when I threaten my own rambunctious four year old with boarding kindergarten, but he knows I am not serious. I'm too behind the times.
So watch the giant rise in the East, and you'll find yourself thinking that Mao prepared the Chinese for modernization in more ways than anyone could have predicted.
My favorite aspect of the NEw China is its nifty synthesis of old style Communism and go-go capitalism, which skips that awkward age -- with its backward bourgeois values -- Enlightenment humanism -- and its invention of the mother child bond.
Under Mao, mothers were encouraged to serve the Motherland by giving their children to communal boarding kindergartens and nursery schools. During the Cultural Revolution, moms could spend all night at self criticism sessions as well as at destroy your neighborhood revisionist party. Mao felt that the Chinese family was a remnant of the feudal past and should be replaced with communal investments and communal life.
But now, there are boarding kindergartens and nursery schools in Beijing and Shanghai for the go go capitalist mom who needs to spend more time at her start up. Your toddler or preschooler would come home on Friday nights, and are sent back with clean sheets and five changes of clothing to school Monday morning.
There are days when I threaten my own rambunctious four year old with boarding kindergarten, but he knows I am not serious. I'm too behind the times.
So watch the giant rise in the East, and you'll find yourself thinking that Mao prepared the Chinese for modernization in more ways than anyone could have predicted.
1 Comments:
Good work! I believe that our traditional Chinese way is better, but we should allow other friends to live with us in our condos, at least if we're frat kids. But the truth is, getting to know your social capitalist or martial artist neighbors is a helluva lot better than living with them. And communal boarding schools should be banned, because in the later years it promotes free sex, which if any huaren or meijihuaren like myself knows, causes STDs and unplanned pregnancies, forcing us to slaughter our kids (J/K!) (actually I'd send him off to a boarding school, but doesn't that just start the whole vicious cycle all over again -- see, the system is fucked up...)
Gongxi Facai and have a nice day!
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