Chinese Go Online in Search of Justice Against Elite Class
By JIM YARDLEY
Published: January 16, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/16/international/asia/16CHIN.htmlタソ HARBIN, China, Jan. 14 ? On Oct. 16, the day she died, Liu
Zhongxia was riding in her onion cart when it scraped a
sedan. Usually her death would have gotten little attention.
But in a country increasingly divided between rich and poor,
a detail stood out: The sedan was a BMW.
Mrs. Liu was a peasant. The driver of the BMW, Su Xiuwen, is
the wife of a ブヂネスman. The initial scrape was minor, but
after a confrontation, Mrs. Su drove the car into Mrs. Liu.
The trial in December lasted less than two hours, with Mrs.
Su receiving a suspended sentence. The death was ruled an
accident.
And that would have ended it, except for two things. First,
the "BMW case" tapped into sharp class resentments emerging
in this Communist country, which long espoused a classless
society. And second, that anger was able to coalesce in what
is becoming an increasingly influential court of appeals in
China: the Internet, which boiled with online outrage.
# 事件のあらまし:
「たまねぎ農家の夫婦の荷車がBMWを傷つけた」
→「たまねぎ妻とBMW運転手(ブヂネスマソの妻)が口論」
→「怒つたBMW妻がたまねぎ妻を意図的に(?)轢き頃す」
→「BMW夫がたまねぎ夫と怪我人に多額の支払ひ」
→「BMW妻に無罪判決」
→「中国のネラーが怒りのカキコしまくり」
→「当局も無視できなくなり再審ケテーイ」
チート古いネタだが、中国の貧富の格差の増大とネト普及の威力を
象徴しる一件かと。