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I've just caught up with the thread, thank you Kangxi it's a very interesting read. It actually gave me the inspiration to go back to translating some stuff I'd sat on for a long time.
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Thanks, its an interesting section. "homosexuality is legal and homosexual couples can be formally married and live together" The marriage part is of course incorrect, but I believe he's talking about registered cohabitation, which Gay rights activists had been pushing for and some county's and city governments had passed in the 80s. It gave limited protection from eviction if the landlord was homophobic. And it became a hot button issue when conservative groups like Save Our Children and Anit Bryant began trying to overturn them. https://libcom.org/history/1977-80-gay-activists-boycott-orange-juice I'm curious how the Chinese audience reacted to this section, both government and public. I understand there was a very, very slow thaw and attitude adjustment to homosexuality in this period, that slowly opened up in the 1990s. I've read that the first book about homosexuality to receive official publication in the PRC was restricted to a small printing and had to be requested with the article saying a request had to be approved by their employer. It didn't specify if this was purely for civil servants or applied to all workplaces.
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I was listening to the Economists podcast series on Xi Jinping called The Prince, and Episode 4: Man enough touches on America Against America and the career of Wang Huning. It reminded me of this thread. Hope its finished one day. Here it is
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