Unanticipated Consequences of Totalitarianism: China Demography Edition

Buce, in Poland blogging about China, in between bouts of speaking Plinglish and eating raraka (which I do not recommend making: it involves using a mandoline and hence has a likelihood of creating permanent scars):

Underbelly: Here's an anecdote about the girl shortage in China, culled from my friend Anna, an overseas Chinese who often goes back there. The starter point is that you'd think the girls would all be scooped up by the plutocrats who could afford (one way or the other) to...