Return to Sichuan
Here's a report from the current issue of the magazine that Lin Yang and I put together after a trip to Sichuan in October. We examine how a handful of survivors of the May 12 earthquake are now faring. A gallery of Ian Teh's photos is forthcoming, and I'll add a link when it's posted.
On Friday Sichuan authorities finally revealed the number of students who died in the earthquake--19,065, nearly one out of every four killed. Up until now the total was believed to be about 10,000. The issue remains highly sensitive, which likely explains why it took so long for this figure to come out. Nine days after the earthquake the human rights activist Feng Congde released an estimate of student deaths based on media reports. He came up with 16,365. That's the midpoint between his low estimate of 13,564 and a high point of 19,012. His high figure is, amazingly, just 0.3% off from the official number released this week.
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[...] (0) | Permalink | Trackbacks (0) | Email This The Sichuan government is backtracking on an earlier announcement about the total number of students who died in the May earthquake. Previously the government had [...]
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I wonder why TIME went back to Sichuan to dig out more news that may make China look bad. Just to hurt the feeling of Chinese ? TIME should just cooperate with the Chinese government and never find anything, much less revealing or publishing such bad news about China. The most important responsibility for any press, foreign or local, is not to hurt the feeling of Chinese.
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Actually this report was good. it is not making China bad. I see it as quite objective and moving with those stories. China does have bad news, and will not be annoyed by reports about that. But just like everyone, we have no tolerance to those misleading, distorting or even competely manufactured reports.
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