Hans Steinmuller and Wu Fei. Reaction Paper

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Some of the author's explanations about Chinese society were a little difficult to understand but I was able to understand the two major themes apparent in the analysis. First, there would appear to be something about Chinese society and culture that might be responsible for generating intense levels of personal frustration and even rage in many individuals, especially men. All of the perpetrators were middle aged men and even though they came from different socioeconomic and professional backgrounds, each of them had recently experienced intense personal frustration whether in connection with maintaining employment or a relationship with a woman, or in connection with building a house on a piece of property. The authors explained how Chinese society places intense pressure on men to assume the position of power and responsibility in the family and that there is also significant social pressure with respect to earning capacity and success in that regard. That might explain only the rage felt by middle aged men whose lives were not necessarily working out the way they had hoped.


Second, the authors suggest that the choice of children for the victims could also be a function of the particular importance of the child within Chinese families. Conceivably, all of those factors plus perhaps having seen the intensity of the news coverage because the first attack of this nature targeted children played a role in that choice. According to that theory, all of these men experienced similar frustration and decided to lash out against society in the harshest way they could. Given the role of children in Chinese families, that meant targeting children for maximum effect of their actions. Finally, the authors do not include a psychological analysis, but it would also seem conceivable that frustrated middle age adults socialized in a repressive society would develop resentment against children because of the hope and freedoms still available to children. They might have resented anybody who was still at a stage of life where they could make better choices or begin….....

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