March 20, 2009
Trading on Sex in Today's China; A Friendship in Letters; The Wedding Bandwagon
Visitors to Dalian, China, can hardly travel a block without encountering one of the port city's thousands of karaoke bars. But the entertainment inside is performed by "hostesses," not amateur singers, and patrons would be advised not to bring along the family. Since the late 1980s, the bars have evolved from a novelty intended to appeal to Japanese businessmen into a furtive obsession of the post-Maoist era. Dalian's lengthy occupation by Japan from 1905 to 1945 — and its
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