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A clearer example of the sort of unreality that the author is trying to describe to you would be the Wenzhou train derailment in 2011. [1] Faced with a crisis

A clearer example of the sort of unreality that the author is trying to describe to you would be the Wenzhou train derailment in 2011. [1] Faced with a crisis that was guaranteed to attract national attention, local officials reacted by attempting to quickly bury the derailed cars on the spot, to the sheer incredulity of absolutely everyone else in China. This is not easily dismissed as a mere example of corruption, or cruelty, or societal failure; rather, it appeared more like a desperate innovation, an attempt to mitigate political damage that revealed serious disconnects between the worldview of the local administration and those of both the general populace and the national administration. It was particularly curious and apt in that this was a national crisis about a great source of national pride, wherein perennial worries of Chinese governance were brought to the fore. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision

choosername 10y ago
That's just anothet point to a short list. Sure, the list is longer, but the problem that the train derailed to begin with, that happens here, in europe, as well.
- manmal 10y ago
  They don't try to cover up train accidents, though. Nobody would even have this idea, I mean what the?
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >They don't try to cover up train accidents, though. Nobody would even have this idea, I mean what the? They didn't try to cover up the train accident in China either. The accident was a major news event for days, there was big rescue missions, etc. They also did an investigation on the causes, down to the design, creation and operation of the trains and lines: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/world/asia/design-flaws-cited-in-china-train-crash.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/world/asia/design-flaws-ci... What they also did, which was hasty, and people called them on it, was trying to bury the broken carriages afterwards -- not to somehow hide that the accident happened (that was major news everywhere anyway), but as a clumsy "move on, nothing to see here" gesture.

choosername 10y ago

That's just anothet point to a short list. Sure, the list is longer, but the problem that the train derailed to begin with, that happens here, in europe, as well.

manmal 10y ago
They don't try to cover up train accidents, though. Nobody would even have this idea, I mean what the?
- coldtea 10y ago
  >They don't try to cover up train accidents, though. Nobody would even have this idea, I mean what the? They didn't try to cover up the train accident in China either. The accident was a major news event for days, there was big rescue missions, etc. They also did an investigation on the causes, down to the design, creation and operation of the trains and lines: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/world/asia/design-flaws-cited-in-china-train-crash.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/world/asia/design-flaws-ci... What they also did, which was hasty, and people called them on it, was trying to bury the broken carriages afterwards -- not to somehow hide that the accident happened (that was major news everywhere anyway), but as a clumsy "move on, nothing to see here" gesture.