First, yesterday I came across this article — a thoughtful discussion of some Chinese reactions to the Tonghua tragedy discussed last week in this blog. There is much worth commenting on, but I’m shirking the temptation in order to probe a little more deeply into a topic we began looking at yesterday: American moralism and [...]

A recent, horrific incident in northeast China has been making the rounds in the U.S. news cycle. The official Chinese government response to the incident holds at least one major lesson for Americans in China. It’s a roundabout path, but I hope an interesting one.