Reflection of the July 23 Highspeed Train Accident

It has been almost three weeks after the Highspeed Train D3115 and D301 crashed. As always, I felt hard to sit down and write about the event that is happening around us, especially for events like Tibet, and Wenzhou train accident that I don’t have any direct information. Any conclusion based on the unverified information can lead to the wrong direction. Now, when everything settles, and people are about to forget about the event, and be ready to go on without looking back, it is the time to do some reflection of the events, and record some of the thoughts. My hope is, people will be able to look at what is going on in the current China after 50 years, and what a normal person sitting before a computer in Shanghai is thinking. (Time Capsule?)

Yiyi - the People’s Voice in the Accident

If there are more free media, I believe people will report more persons like Yiyi - the two year old girl who were found alive 20 hours after the accidents in which both of her parents died. We are human being. The number of death means nothing. No one get scared if they simply see 40 people died. But they do when they see photos, see stories, and the basic is, to know the names of the victim.

Under the ruling of the current government, it is a tradition that the name list of any massive death event to be kept confidential. The death in the mining, and the recent Shanghai’s residential building fire - it is the tradition.