I’m in the US this week for an academic conference, but be sure to check out Yajun’s piece for The Guardian on the Foshan hit-and-run case. Arguing that the causes of the passers-by indifference to the plight of “Little Yueyue” is symptomatic of larger problems in Chinese society. She writes:
Whatever the reasons are and wherever we place the blame, there is no excuse for witnessing a human being dying without doing anything to help. As many Chinese web users have written, it’s possible that there is a kind of sickness in Chinese society that has infected us to our core, and which has been growing for a long time.
Great article. For more by Yajun, check out some of her Granite Studio posts from earlier this year:
Political trust: Not something to be taken with a grain of salt
A Chinese Perspective on the Jasmine Revolution
Turning Rumors into News: The non-death of Jiang Zemin
The Sino-Japanese Relationship: (Apologies to Facebook) It’s Complicated
The Significance of Singing Red Songs