Marriage, milk tea, and John Donne

Studies of families in Boading show that after 30 years of socialist principles in societal planning and structuring family life through acts such as the Marriage Law and the dissolution of ownership of property, the family structure was of better quality for people aged 50 and above than for their counterparts in Taiwan.
Taiwan broke away from China and pursued a more capitalist form of society. In measures of family networking, contact with children and extended family members, men and women aged 50 and above rated their satisfaction higher in all categories than those people in Taiwan.
All of those surveyed in Boading, a city of about 600,000 near Beijing, would have had their families before the introduction of the One Child policy in 1979. The survey was conducted in 1994.
The sociologists who conducted the survey now wish to survey again following the imposition of people who have been subject to the One Child policy and the move towards more capitalist approaches and the ownership of property and business enterprises.
Anyway Hong Kong is also an interesting case where the British colonial structures that were imposed since the 1860s have greatly influenced society and people's expectations. I only wish they could get a good cup of tea right, Twinings' Russian Caravan, with milk and a good sugar. Very hot. A Hong Kong Style Milk Tea is just not right. Neither is the Thick White Toast liberally doused with Peanut Butter and then criss-crossed with
sticky sweet Condensed Milk. Something is gang aft agley.
This is from John Donne, from nearly 400 years ago. it is good to hear again. Read the whole work aloud to someone. It's a good tale.
The Sonne Rising

She is all States, and all Princes, I,

Nothing else is.

Princes doe but play us; compar'd to this,

All honor's mimique; All wealth alchimie.

Thou sunne art halfe as happy'as wee,

In that the world's contracted thus;

Thine age askes ease, and since thy duties bee

To warme the worlde, that's done in warming us.

Shine here to us, and thou art every where;

This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare.