http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timcolla...ng-on-in-china/
懒得翻译，原文如下：
Three mass stabbings of children in a month. What the hell is going on in China?
By Tim Collard World Last updated: April 29th, 2010
Today another knife attack on children has been reported from southern China. A man broke into a kindergarten this morning and laid about him with a knife, injuring 28 children, five of them now in danger of their lives, and three staff. “Well, it’s very sad, but these things happen,” might be the general reaction over here C but the fact that this was the third such case in a month is surely worthy of further comment.
Only yesterday 15 children were injured when a mentally ill man cut loose in a primary school in Guangdong Province, the one nearest to Hong Kong. Also yesterday, a man was executed in the next-door province of Fujian for stabbing eight primary school children to death as they queued outside their classroom at the end of March.
Obviously there is a copycat element in these killings, but that doesn’t actually explain very much. When one hears of a horrible and senseless murder, one doesn’t normally react by saying “Ooh, that sounds like a good idea, I’ll go and do one of those”. The second and third murderers were obviously prepared to do something public and gruesome anyway, and the copycat element only influenced the form it took. But after three such episodes, it is surely legitimate to start asking whether there is something in Chinese society which tends to generate this kind of savagery.
Some commentators will inevitably point to the general increase in crime in China since the rise of capitalism and social inequality, not to mention the demise of the Mao regime in which pickpockets were likely to be shot out of hand. It is undoubtedly true that petty crime of all sorts has increased massively in China’s economic free-for-all. But that’s not relevant to this type of crime; it can’t be related purely to greed or economic desperation.
It has also been said, not least by myself, that Chinese concern for human life is rather less evident than in those societies which owe their origins to Christianity. But again, that’s not relevant here: in fact, the one-child family policy has made children supremely precious to Chinese parents. In the poorer parts of China a genuine proletariat has emerged; the real meaning of the p-word is “those whose wealth lies solely in their children”. Every single one of those poor children will have been not only the apple of their parents’ eye but also their pension plan and sole hope of betterment.
So perhaps this is part of the answer: children were chosen as these madmen’s victims because that seemed to most effective way of inflicting a really savage blow on society. Chinese society can be pretty repressive, even aside from the actions of the Communist Party: the man executed in Fujian claimed to have been driven to murder by the oppression of his ex-girlfriend’s wealthy family (which sounds plausible to me; Chinese families can be positively Sicilian). And C the key point C there is almost nothing one can do in the way of legal action or public protest against perceived injustice.
So these ghastly attacks can go down as one more element on the charge-sheet against a closed society and a regime which allows so few outlets for the social frustrations which are bound to accumulate, and which are not, of course, exclusive to China.
