NOTES FROM BIG BEN … The Chinese, BY PETER GUEST


with too few women. The law of unintended conse- quences means that many Chinese women, instead of demurely waiting forMr. Right to come along, have been empowered by their situation and have taken control of their own lives. I remember a British friend working in Shanghai telling me


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that practically all the locals in her office were women who left their husbands home (if they had bothered to get one) to do the cooking and laundry whilst the girls went out to earn the money and have fun. Given this, I was surprised to see that the Hebei Tiancheng


Enterprise Group in Shijiazhuang, China, has dedicated one of the three parking structures in its newWonderMall exclusively to women. The lot has three features “especially targeted to women,” TheWall Street Journal reported. First, thewidth of each parking space is about 3.2-3.3meters


“so that evenwhen the doors of two neighboring cars are all fully open, they won’t hit,” according to the designer. This means 50 cars can be accommodated in a parking lot that would normally


It’s about money. Charges are being raised to “harmonize” with adjacent boroughs.


house around 100. Second, the car park is painted in pink and purple tomake it


cozy, and each parking stall has three lights. Two car park walls are painted with the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac so the women parkers don’t get lost in such a large space. And, third, just to make sure, the ladies will be guided to a


parking slot (so difficult to maneuver in just 3.3 meters) by six dancing parking attendants! The leader of the group’s design team is a Mr. Wu, who


seems to have a rather traditional attitude toward women and their ability to control a car. I suspect that if some of the women drivers of China get their hands on Mr.Wu, another tradition might be revised – that of eunuch!


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EWARE THE ‘SHE DRAGON’ China has a demographic problem. Its one-child policy and traditional atti- tudes toward female children mean that a whole generation has grown up


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