LUXURY cars, yachts and diamonds are commonplace for China's super-rich, but a new status symbol has just been added to their list of must-haves - the wet nurse.
The practice of infants being suckled by women other than their mothers was branded decadent by Mao Zedong and was stamped out by the country's postwar leaders.
But in the booming cities of the east coast, the moneyed classes are no longer constrained by the taboos of their Communist overlords and they are looking to the past excesses of their ancestors. Pu Yi, the subject of Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 film, The Last Emperor, was suckled well into his teens.
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