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[Anonymous]

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[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]With the next round of Olympics coming to London, since Mei Fong wrote about the summer games in Beijing, one might want to note how the Chinese women athletes are doing. Apparently, during the games that Fong covered, the Chinese women athletes were receiving more government funding because they won more medals than men. With the role of women under Communist China being "equal to men" under Mao, standing tall on the winner's platform is no stretch for the Chinese women. I have the feeling, the women typically had to work hard in the fields, shoulder to shoulder with the men, and still work hard in the home. I somehow doubt all was equal-equal, having read Lisa See's recent book set during the Revolution.[/font]

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