Oh, and: Assuming it's the Chinese government that's engineered her... then they've built a woman to be permanently pregnant. That's a violation of human/women's rights I would like to see explored.
This is pretty odd in a different way. If she's some kind of engineered thing, historically speaking, she'd have to date back to early Mao - it was during the Great Leap Forward (late 50s, early 60s) that he had the drives to boost the birth rate. The One-Child Policy is, in part, mopping up part of that big mess.
Why I think this is odd is that one of the other character sketches had some note under it about the dude being a Red Guard "from the Cultural Revolution era" or some such.
Chinese history nutshell: Great Leap Forward (immense social engineering effort) ends in disaster (world's largest famine), Mao disgraced & semi-exiled. Cultural Revolution, Mao returns to power of the weight of, um, having written school textbooks and a few theater reviews. In other words, hearts and minds and mass-hysteria. Neither event is particularly current or even uncritically lauded in modern China.
So I'm wondering if these heroes are either literally stuck in the past (emerging from a time capsule?) or metaphorically representing eras of Chinese history.
Or if they're just bit players who'll appear in, like, five panels having a disagreement with Booster Gold and walking off in a huff. |
