MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Evan Osnos, Letter from China blog @ The New Yorker, October 18, 2011
This clip of surveillance-camera footage is very much worth avoiding. Trust me on the grisly essentials: a two-year-old is toddling across a market street in the southern Chinese city of Foshan when she is hit by a white minivan. The driver pauses, assesses the situation, and moves on, running over the girl again with the back right tire. In the minutes that follow, she lies on the pavement, is hit by another driver, and is ignored by more than a dozen passersby, including a woman walking with a child. Eventually, a garbage collector stops and pulls the child to safety.
Ever since this tape was broadcast on the Chinese news last week, the story of two-year-old Yueyue—and the many grown-ups who failed her—has appalled Chinese readers and sparked a debate about the ethical health of contemporary life here. The driver, in a call to reporters, didn’t help matters, saying: “If she is dead, I may pay only about twenty-thousand yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan.”.....
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Little Yueyue and China's moral road
By Wu Zhong, China Editor, Asia Times Online, October 19
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 11:56am