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English to Chinese: Advanced producers or moral polluters? China’s bureaucrat-entrepreneurs and sexual corruption (partial) by Elaine Jeffreys
Source text - English There is a popular saying about the relationship between money, gender and sexual morality in the People¡¯s Republic of China [PRC]: ¡®Men who get rich become immoral; women only get rich after they become immoral¡¯ (¡®nanren zheng qian jiu bian hui; n¨¹ren bian hui cai you qian.¡¯. Like most aphorisms, this observation appeals to commonsense or public perceptions of how things are. As one foreign correspondent explains:
In China these days, people are talking about sex¡ªextramarital affairs, prostitution and rich men taking mistresses. Many are worried that sex is becoming a commodity, leading to the exploitation of women. This comes after years of government efforts to eradicate traces of pre-communist decadence (Kuhn 2007).
In the words of another: China¡¯s post-1978 shift from a planned to a market-based economy ¡®has lifted millions of people out of poverty and created a new class of millionaires¡¯. However, unlike new freedoms and opportunities, ¡®get-rich-quick schemes, casual sex, and animosity between rich and poor¡¯, are worrying trends. Voices in the Chinese media and academia warn that economic progress has been accompanied by moral decay, which ¡®could destabilize society¡¯ (Chao 2005).
The argument that economic progress in the form of marketization sounds the death-knell for communitarian and traditional moral values is longstanding. Ever since ¡®Marx wrote on alienation, Durkheim on anomie, and Weber on the iron cage of capitalism¡¯, political commentators have either decried or praised the heightened individualism, secularism, and instrumental rationality, that is associated with the capitalist wage-labour system (Weller 1998: 78). Similarly, commentators have condemned or lauded the globalization of free markets, which are usually associated with Western liberal democracies, either for destroying local cultures or for bringing much-needed civilizational progress to backward, despotic, and under-developed countries (Chua 2003; Fukuyama 1992).
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