标题: Sense of Powerlessness in China [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 11-22-2011 12:27 标题: Sense of Powerlessness in China Michael Wines and Ian Johnson, After a Horrific Crash, a Stark Depiction of Injustice in China; With regular reminders, the anguish of the powerless never heals. New York Times, Nov 19, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/1 ... %20china&st=cse
Quote:
(a) "But some things are not easily reduced to statistics. There is an argument, buttressed by the Gansu tragedy, that what truly eats at people here is not so much the rich-poor gap as the canyon that separates the powerful from the powerless.
“'Most Chinese aren’t angry about rising inequality,' said Martin K. Whyte, a Harvard sociologist who specializes in research on Chinese social trends. 'It’s not rich versus poor. It’s the system of power and procedural injustices that they’re upset about.'
(b) "For years, China’s roads have been among the world’s most dangerous. Statistics for 2009, the most recent available, show that 67,759 people died on the road in China, a 7.8 percent decline over the previous year. That capped a decade of steadily declining road fatalities.
"But another study, by the World Health Organization, cast serious doubt on the official Chinese figures. Comparing policy data with hospital records, the study concluded that the real death rate from traffic accidents was roughly twice the official figure. That would make China’s roads the most dangerous among middle-income countries.
Note:
(a) The report was translated into Chinese:
Kevin·Ren, 甘肃校车事故引发舆论风暴. 东西, Nov 21, 2011. http://dongxi.net/b13gQ
(b) 21st Century Business Herald 广东二十一世纪环球经济报 http://www.21cbh.com/
(c) Qian'an 河北省唐山市 迁安市
(d) YU Jianrong 于 建嵘 (1962- )
(e) Qingyang 甘肃省 庆阳 市
(f) hoot (vi, vt):
"1: to shout or laugh usually derisively
2: to make the natural throat noise of an owl or a similar cry" www.m-w.com
(g) microvan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvan
(A microvan is a van that fits into Japanese kei car [short for keijidosha 軽自動車; in Japanese] classification or similar)
(h) Kuaile de Jingling Laodie 快乐的精灵老爹