Comments on: I’m off to Henan with 20kg of dead flies … http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:18:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Chris O'Brien http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2865 Chris O'Brien Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:19:33 +0000 http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2865 Thanks for that Cat - a true breadth of knowledge! Thanks for that Cat - a true breadth of knowledge!

]]> By: The Lazy Aussie http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2863 The Lazy Aussie Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:41:14 +0000 http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2863 Pegging the price per fly is typical China. Perhaps pressure could be applied to at least allow "the fly" to move within a narrow trading band. Floating the fly price on the open market is too much to expect right now. Pegging the price per fly is typical China. Perhaps pressure could be applied to at least allow “the fly” to move within a narrow trading band. Floating the fly price on the open market is too much to expect right now.

]]> By: sun bin http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2861 sun bin Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:43:34 +0000 http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2861 you would have thought so. more likely is that some official related inside trader would have hoarded some fly bodies to cash in before the bounty has been announced. :) you would have thought so. more likely is that some official related inside trader would have hoarded some fly bodies to cash in before the bounty has been announced. :)

]]> By: China Law Blog http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2852 China Law Blog Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:30:33 +0000 http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2852 That's quite a nice bit of Yuan per fly. Seems there may be arbitrage possibilities by paying people .3 Yuan to bring in dead flies from the true hinterlands. That’s quite a nice bit of Yuan per fly. Seems there may be arbitrage possibilities by paying people .3 Yuan to bring in dead flies from the true hinterlands.

]]> By: cat http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2836 cat Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:18:20 +0000 http://www.beijingnewspeak.com/2007/07/10/im-off-to-henan-with-20kg-of-dead-flies/#comment-2836 There was a story in Taiwan's China Post in 1990 about a similar campaign to eliminate "yellow literature" - pornography - though the "pornography" may simply have been pictures of women in bikinis. This was 17 years ago, so I can't remember where it was supposed to have happened, and whether it was city, county or district. Anyway, according to the article, schoolchildren were given a homework assignment to find all the pornography in their parents' homes and hand it in at school. Everyone had to bring something in. The problem with this was that hardly anyone had any dirty pictures in their homes, so the parents had to go off and buy some. Shops and stalls selling under-the-counter magazines suddenly found their business booming. There was a story in Taiwan’s China Post in 1990 about a similar campaign to eliminate “yellow literature” - pornography - though the “pornography” may simply have been pictures of women in bikinis. This was 17 years ago, so I can’t remember where it was supposed to have happened, and whether it was city, county or district.

Anyway, according to the article, schoolchildren were given a homework assignment to find all the pornography in their parents’ homes and hand it in at school. Everyone had to bring something in. The problem with this was that hardly anyone had any dirty pictures in their homes, so the parents had to go off and buy some. Shops and stalls selling under-the-counter magazines suddenly found their business booming.

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