Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manacled men showed no emotion as a Shanghai court pronounced them guilty of either raping or molesting 48 women between 1981 and 1984. As a crowd of 3,000 looked on, three of the gang members were whisked off to the outskirts of the city. There the trio were unceremoniously executed by gunshots to the back of the head. What made the swift justice remarkable was that two of the three were sons of senior Chinese officials. Their deaths were the most dramatic sign yet of Peking's determination to stamp out rampant nepotism...
...some extent the findings of the polls are a by-product of the government's decision to bring sex out of the closet by allowing new sex manuals and setting up courses on sex and marriage. In September, Shanghai opened its first School for Newlyweds, offering two-week instruction on sexual life, hygiene and contraception. Couples who had been married several years, still feeling ignorant in the field, signed up for refresher courses. Forty of the city's more than 400 secondary schools are experimenting with sex-ed courses for twelve- and 13-year-olds. These courses concentrate on physiology...
Despite the chilling effect of law and custom, liberal ideas and practices surface and are customarily blamed on the West. To many Chinese, Westerners seem enslaved by their animal instincts and unconcerned about family unity. Still, more open attitudes seem to continue. The usually stern Shanghai Liberation Daily raised eyebrows last summer with an evenhanded treatment of the loss of virginity, calling it "not a good thing, but it is not necessarily an irredeemably bad thing." And like other countries, China is learning that courses and books aimed at keeping the lid on sexual activity help feed it. Young women...
...material girl has been cast as a missionary, and her bad-boy husband, somewhat closer to type, plays a raffish hustler. But the real surprises in Shanghai Surprise have come off the set. Upon arriving in the Portuguese colony of Macao, Madonna, 27, and Sean Penn, 25, fled a welcoming crowd, only to be ambushed outside their hotel room by Hong Kong Standard Correspondent Leonel Borralho. A long scuffle with Penn and bodyguards ensued, after which Borralho sued for $1 million. Two days later, reporters on stakeout took off after the couple, and the resulting car chase created a huge...
...gentic reasons, surely, many New Yorkers are unable to deal with this fact. They moan and cry and point to population indicators by whose standards Shanghai is the center of the universe. They bite their grimy nails and refer to the rest of the country as "the provinces...