...actually buy a game and run a cracked version just to get around the DRM? i confess to be one of them. not ashamed to be one.

tell them to read more of their own history. oh i am chinese, btw. i'm just one that read a bit more than what the history classes fed us.

it's pretty hard to mix up china and the church. but you are mixing up one child policy and sex taboo.

chinese buddhism and confusianism considered sexual lust a, well for lack of a better word, sin. taoism codes also calls for quieting one's lusts. folklore believes that semen is the essence of man, the cream of blood. so sex, the process in which semen was expelled from the body, is a process of losing one's vitality. it should be done out of necessity. this was the traditional chinese mindset on sex before the communist tookover.

after the tookover, the reason for porn ban was written in the party code way before there's internet porn or one child policy. in the early days of the PRC, proletariat/revolutionary morals were enforced. bourgeois luxury such as wine and fine dining and good clothing and, well, sexuality were discouraged. in fact trend for women in that era was to dress as much like men as possible. if you look at the chinese bank note--i believe it's a 10-yuan note--in that era, the woman on it was driving a tractor (to signify that women are as good workers as men), and pretty much dressed like a man. the chinese were told that sex is a means to boost the army of revolutionaries. and woman with many kids were celebrated as hero mothers.

then after the cultural revolution and death of mao the deng govt realized china had a population problem, and one child policy was established. this was in the late 70's. it's a policy of necessity. early enforcements in rural areas were quite brutal because there's fierce resistance from the son-loving peasants. toward the one child goal, contraceptives were given for free or sold publicly, and when it's sold, it's called "equipment for planned reproduction".

one child policy or hero mothers, the moral smear on sex is firmly in place, written in law in the form of ban on porn and prostitution. it's ironic, because though illegal, prostitution is rampant in china right now, and often corrupt officials have a stake in it by turning a blind eye. example, wen qiang case in sichuan. that guy's lover actually ran the biggest prison-brothel establishment in the city of chongqing. google it up.

sorry, i'm not going to translate all that news for you. so you'll need to:

step 1: learn chinese.

step 2: search news using keywords "corrupt official" (pinyin: tan1 guan1) and word for "lover" (pinyin: qing2 fu 4). slashdot apparently doesn't take any chinese characters.

step 3: read.

the way chicom preaches, sex is for reproduction purposes, and any sexual act not related to reproduction is a bourgeois extravagance. it's further infused with elements of chinese tradition (from confucian/buddhist roots), where sex is considered dirty and degrading, and only to be practiced to maintain the blood lineage.

where government officials can openly keep harems but citizens can't even watch porn.

but even then i'm shocked by the blatant attempt at money grabbing in this.

reminds me of a recent (chinese) movie called "let the bullets fly". there's a scene very fitting to this news. the head of a bandit camp chides his men, who just raped a woman in front of her husband: "even i would put out the lights when i do this!" the chinese government didn't feel the need.

actually, lots of the chinese 'net data are duplicates of each other. in part, it's a crowd sourced redundancy strategy (duplicate info on multiple servers) to get around the censorship.

i found two pieces of the puzzle:

one, foxnews make you more misinformed.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/1615218/Survey-Shows-That-Fox-News-Makes-You-Less-Informed?from=rss

two, given truth, the misinformed believe the lies more.
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/07/14/1235220/Given-Truth-the-Misinformed-Believe-Lies-More

yes, because the american kids often--though not always--have a conscious choice whether to put effort into the competition. and these kids also receive the same education, if they choose to, as every other kid.

you have to realize that chinese society is highly competitive because of the population. education is a constant battle among peers. talents like the girl in this article was "manufactured" for lack of a better word. they were picked out at an early age and entered into the athlete training system, in which hard training is the routine day in and day out because these kids are also competing within themselves for the top spot in sports. only a few make it--good for them. the rest end up being dropped out.

problem is that the athlete manufacturing system has a different--reduced--education curriculum. in china standardized exams dictate where students stand in job markets, and a different curriculum spells doom for those not taught as such. this reduced curriculum makes it very hard for the athlete dropouts to merge back into the ordinary crowd to compete. the later the dropout, the worse, since they wasted more time on athletic training.

any visible international competition has its counterpart training program in china. aside from sports, there's also programs for math olympiad, physics, computer sciente, etc. kids in those programs fare better because those subjects are within the academic curriculum and are valued by the chinese universities.

i know, because i was one of them.

i can do that because i am chinese. not an ABC, but a PRC native. i know my race. i know how the society works.

either way she would not have much of a childhood. most such prodigies in china end up having a very miserable time before they achieve fame, and even worse when they fall from it.