Gendercide (Warning: Part of (1) & (2) Are Graphic)

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The cover story of current issue of Economist is "gendercide."

(1) Mothers in China | Sobs on the night breeze; The centre of global
gendercide. Economist, Mar. 4, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15603722&CFID=116633988&CFTOKEN=53746595

(2) Gendercide |  The worldwide war on baby girls;
Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to
unbalance societies. Economist, Mar. 4, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15636231&CFID=116633988&CFTOKEN=53746595

Note:
(a) Xinran Xue 薛 欣然
(b) slop (n): "excreted body waste--usu. used in pl. <emptying other people'
s ~s --John Morrison>
(c) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) 中国社会科学院
(d) Blue Book of China's Society  2010年《社会蓝皮书》
(e) Mary Ann Warren, Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection. Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers (1985)
(f) overweening (adj.): "EXCESSIVE, UNRESTRAINED"
(g) The article states "three [provinces] have unprecedented levels of more
than 130. Illustration No. 3 shows they are Zhejiang, Shangdong and
Heilongjiang.
(h) The article also states, "Some of the consequences of the skewed sex
ratio have been unexpected."
(i) extra-birth guerrilla troops 超生游击队
(j) In the print, (2) comes with, and is followed closely by,

Distorted sex ratios in India | Haryana's lonely bachelors; Struggling to
cope with a dearth of brides. Economist, Mar. 4, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15604465

* Haryana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haryana
(a state in northern India)
** dandle (vt): " to move (as a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knee in affectionate play"

English definitions are from Webster (3rd ed, 1961).

(3) The war on baby girls | Gendercide; Killed, aborted or neglected, at
least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising. Economist, Mar.
4, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15606229&CFID=116633988&CFTOKEN=53746595


My comment: (1) is a book review. (2) is an in-depth analysis, and (3) is an
editorial. If you do not have time, read (1). After that, if you want to
explore further, read (2). (3) is in fact a summary of (2).

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My comment:
(a) The (2) in my previous posting is translated into Chinese:

The worldwide war on baby girls 对女婴的全球性围剿. Mar. 12, 2010.
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:SJefEOOMe_oJ:bbs.ecocn.org/viewthread.php%3Ftid%3D31778+%22extra+birth+guerrilla+troop%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&lr=lang_zh-CN

(b) Taiwanese are no saints. See the section 出生嬰兒性別比例變化 at pages 10-11 of
人口政策白皮書（核定本） 少子女化、高齡化及移民. 行政院 Taiwan), Mar. 10, 2008.
http://www.jhonghe.ris.tpc.gov.tw/web66/_file/1176/upload/population/0970314.pdf
(from 1987 to 2006 inclusive; 資料來源：內政部「中華民國人口統計年刊」。 註：1987 年以前無出生嬰兒性別比例按胎次統計資料。")

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: The cover story of current issue of Economist is "gendercide."
: (1) Mothers in China | Sobs on the night breeze; The centre of global
: gendercide. Economist, Mar. 4, 2010.
: http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15603722&amp;CFID=116633988&amp;CFTOKEN=53746595
: (以下引言省略...)

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