JEFF J. BROWN—All over China, crime became epidemic, including murders, robberies, burglaries, petty theft, domestic and public violence – the usual tableau of social degeneration found in capitalist, dog-eat-dog economies. Suddenly, China’s cities were no longer safe. They were full of mean streets and menace, just like in the West. To quote Morris Berman (http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/tag/morris-berman/), China, like the United States, had turned into a nation of hustlers. This is what my family moved into, when we first arrived in China in 1990.