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...Li Li has lost exact count of how many men she has bedded, but she knows the number is far above 100. "I don't keep statistics," says the former journalist, 27. But she isn't averse to kissing and telling. For the past couple of years, Li has kept a blog--written under the pen name Muzi Mei--that has chronicled everything from her penchant for orgies and Internet dating to her skepticism toward marriage when it means staying faithful to one man. This fall the Beijing resident posted a recording of her own lovemaking sounds that would make...
...control over individual lifestyle choices and the spread of more permissive, Western attitudes toward sex, Chinese are copulating earlier, more often and with more partners than ever before. Today 70% of Beijing residents say they have had sexual relations before marriage, compared with just 15.5% in 1989, according to Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A survey taken last January of seven major Chinese cities found that among those 14 to 20, the average age of first sexual experience was 17.4, while those 31 to 40 had lost their virginity much later, at 24.1 years...
...Li Jianguo remembers the day he learned what his wealth might cost him. The multimillionaire owner of a Chinese herbal-medicine company, Li was living in Hainan in the early 1990s when a kidnapper snatched his friend's young son from school and demanded $400,000 in ransom. Police rescued the boy, but not before revealing that the kidnapper had been a close friend of both men. Li says he "realized then that as soon as a Chinese person discloses his wealth, danger is waiting." Today he refrains from inviting friends to his opulent Beijing villa, keeps his net worth...
...anxieties of Li and his thick-bankbooked brethren are spawning a lucrative boom in China's private-security business. The body-guarding profession was officially abolished along with other "feudal" trades after the Communists came to power in 1949, and baobiao, the Chinese word for bodyguard, retains a tinge of ill-repute. Because of this political legacy, the industry still occupies a legal gray area, but bodyguards are now in such demand that the top earners can make $5,000 a month. "As China's economy develops, safety problems will increase, and that means businesses like ours will continue...
...decades, the Court has been rubber-stamping human rights violations,” Li wrote. “[This] ultimately benefits...