Schoolyard violence with Chinese characterisitcs

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Currentaffairs, Business, News, China Politics, Shenzhen, Chinese, Chongqing, China News, Politics, China, Culture, Sichuan, Hangzhou, Beijing, International Relations, China Economy, Chengdu, Film, Shanghai, Guangzhou

4.7 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2010

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Despite efforts to downplay the story in the face of the Shanghai Expo, news of a recent wave of copycat killings has spread quickly through China, driven in part by the surprising revelation that many of the killers have been middle-aged and apparently well-educated men. Online, some netizens have blamed the government, which in turn blames social contradictions. Writing for The Telegraph, Malcolm Moore summarizes these attacks as a “turning point” created by alienation engendered over the last twenty years of China’s industrialization. Where does the truth lie? With Kaiser Kuo out of the country, Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei takes up hosting duties this week, joined by Sinica regular Gady Epstein, Beijing bureau chief for Forbes magazine, and China public relations expert Will Moss, whom you may know as author of the popular blog Imagethief. Qin Liwen, a Chinese author and bookstore owner in Beijing who has written about these killings in the domestic media, also joins Jeremy as a guest in the studio. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Seventh Sinica podcast.
0:12.0	I'm Jeremy Goldporn, your host today, taking the place of Kaiser Gore, who is in Australia this week, and will be back next week.
0:18.0	Today we're going to discuss the recent spate of attacks on school
0:21.8	children across China and also syphilis. To enlighten us on these topics, we have two frequent
0:28.8	guests, Gadi Epstein, the Beijing Bureau Chief of Forbes magazine, and Will Moss, the blogger
0:33.8	behind Image Thief. And we're also joined by Chinle Wen, a blogger, columnist, author, and bookstore owner,
0:40.9	who just today finished writing a column for a Chinese magazine about the school stabbings.
0:45.9	Welcome, everybody.
0:47.1	Thank you.
0:47.5	Thank you.
0:49.0	Before we get going, I'd just like to put a word of thanks to popup Chinese.com,
0:54.1	who have provided both the hosting
0:55.8	for this podcast and the studio in which we are now sitting. But let's get straight on to the
1:00.7	crime and violence. I'd like to introduce the topic with Malcolm Moore of the Daily Telegraph,
1:06.9	an article by him. Seven children at a nursery school in northwestern China have been hacked to death
1:12.7	and at least 20 more injured in the ninth attack involving children in just over a month.
1:18.7	The attack is the latest in a series of seemingly copycat knife attacks against young children.
1:24.5	The spate of violence began at the end of March when a mentally unstable former
1:28.8	doctor murdered eight children at a school in Fujian province. That crime sparked further attacks
1:35.0	across the country, mostly involving furiously frustrated middle-aged men. Liwan, what do you think
1:40.8	is going on? Yeah, frustrated middle-aged men is a very accurate summary of all these characters of the killers here.
1:50.0	As we noticed that it's within one, well, actually less than two months, one and a half months.
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