A recent high speed Chinese train crash in Wenzhou highlighted the inequities ordinary Chinese face in everyday life. The actor Ge You comments poetically on the neglect with which the victims were treated:
“If a higher-level leader died,” he wrote, “there would be countless wreaths; however, when many ordinary people died, there was only endless harmony” — a euphemism for censorship. “If a higher-level leader died, there would be nationwide mourning; however, when many ordinary people died, there was not a single word of apology. If a higher-level leader died, there would be high-end funerals; however, when many ordinary people died, there were only cold numbers.”
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