East Asia Insight China earthquake

East Asia Insight - Earthquake 2008.3

After the Quake - A Personal Retrospective

忍“Ren” - a blade over the heart - is the Chinese pictogram meaning “endure.” So have Chinese, peasants especially, endured for centuries nature’s violence and the miseries brought on by man himself. “Ren” came to mind again and again as I looked at the faces of folk in places along the fault line of the May 12 earthquake. Being barely two months since the greatest natural shock China has had in three decades, the stoicism I saw everywhere was remarkable. But like many farmhouses and buildings in towns, cracks could be seen only close up. With crops ripening in the summer heat, men and women - especially the women! - were hard at work in the fields. But one village leader pointed to the shattered storehouse - “Where will we put our grain?”


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