Death of Wang Yue

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Wang Yue (Chinese: ?? ; pinyin: WÃÆ'¡ng YuÃÆ'¨ ), also known as "Little Yue Yue", is a two-year-old Chinese girl crushed by two vehicles in the afternoon day October 13, 2011 on a narrow street in Foshan, Guangdong. As he lay bleeding in the street for more than seven minutes, at least 18 passers-by circled his body, ignoring him. She was eventually assisted by a female garbage collector and sent to the hospital for treatment, but succumbed to her injuries and died eight days later. The closed-circuit television footage of the incident was uploaded to the Internet, and quickly generated widespread reaction in China and abroad. Many commentators see this as an indication of apathy in contemporary Chinese society.

Video Death of Wang Yue

Accident

Mr. Wang, a two-year-old, wanders from his home in Foshan while his mother quickly collects laundry during a lightning storm. Closed-circuit television cameras capture the child roaming the narrow and busy market street. Within moments after his appearance on the screen, Wang was struck by a white van, and fell to the ground and under the front wheel of the van. The van driver stopped but did not get out. After a while, he pulls forward slowly, as his rear wheel runs over Wang. The driver moves. Furthermore, at least 18 people walked past him, and failed to help him, some stopped to stare before continuing. At that time, another large truck walked on Wang's feet with the front and rear tires. She was eventually assisted by the garbage scavenger of women, Chen Xianmei (Mandarin: ??? ). It is evident in the video that Wang cried, clutching his head, moving his hands and feet, and bleeding. Wang's parents, Wang Chichang and Qu Feifei chose not to blame anyone but themselves for the death of their daughter. Qu said, "Grandma Chen represents the best of human nature, that's the best and most natural side of us."

The drivers of both vehicles were detained by police in the days after the incident.

Maps Death of Wang Yue

Trial

On May 26, 2012, Hu Jun, who drove the first minivan to hit Wang, was tried in Foshan and accused of killing Wang. He pleaded guilty to a traffic crime, but not murder. On September 6, 2012, Mr. Hu was convicted of accidental killing and was sentenced 3 Ã, ¹ / ₂ in prison. The sentence was alleviated because he surrendered and had paid some of Wang's medical expenses.

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Public reaction

The closed circuit footage of the incident was broadcast by a local television station, then posted online. The footage triggered worldwide news reports, and sparked dozens of editorials and millions of posts on social media sites, the majority criticized the irreverence and cruelty of those who passed Wang Yue without helping him.

Previously, there were incidents in China, such as the Peng Yu incident in 2006, in which good Samaritan who assisted those injured in accidents was accused of injuring the victim himself and in many cases was forced to pay the victim's medical bills. Some commentators have explained that this may have caused people to be afraid of getting into trouble for doing the right thing in Wang's case, thus failing to help.

Communist Party of Guangdong Province chairman Wang Yang called the incident "a call to wake everyone up." The Sina Weibo website attracted more than 4.5 million posts on the incident within days and launched an online "stop apathetic" campaign. There are also reports that some of the 18 people identified in the camera recording have received harassment, threats, and crank calls since the news broke out.

In November 2011, the results of a poll by the China Youth Daily , the Communist Party's official newspaper for youth, showed that 80% of young people surveyed said they had followed the case closely, and 88% of those surveyed thought Wang died of a growing ignorance in China against others. The majority, 71%, also think people who pass through the child without the help of fear will get into trouble on their own. According to an article by Chen Weihua, deputy editor of China Daily, "Various surveys in recent weeks have shown that the majority of people surveyed believe that our morale has suffered a major setback in the past decade."

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Aftermath

According to the China Daily, at least 10 parties and government departments and organizations in Guangdong, including provincial commissions for politics and law, women's federation, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Communist Youth League, have begun discussions about punishing those who refuse to help people who obviously need it. "

Officials from Guangdong province, along with many lawyers and social workers, also held a three-day meeting in the provincial capital of Guangzhou to discuss the case. It was reported that various members of parliament in the province are drafting the law "Good Samaritan", who will "punish those who fail to help in such situations and release them from lawsuits if their efforts are in vain." Legal and public experts debate this idea before discussion and legislative encouragement. On August 1, 2013, the country's first Good Samaritan law applies in Shenzhen.

While much of the attention focused on passersby failing to help Wang, a British journalist interviewed other shopkeepers in the Foshan hardware marketplace just meters away but failed to answer. He found that the area in which the incident occurred was inhabited primarily by internal migrant families (Wangs had migrated from Shandong seven years earlier). In the author's view, there is little sense of community and little similarity there. One resident noted, "It is sad that we are not really talking to each other."

Incident later

While the media reported about the apathy that the Chinese felt after Wang Yue's death, another incident took place in Hangzhou when a Chinese woman attempted suicide by drowning herself in the lake, while Chinese local audiences gathered by the lake to watch. After realizing that no one was trying to save the woman, a Uruguayan visitor to China named Maria Fernanda Gomez Arregui swam to the water and rescued the woman from drowning. Chinese government officials announced that Maria Fernanda would receive a 3000 yuan cash prize for her heroic display of "traditional Chinese virtues". Rescue reached a high profile after the media presented photographs by Wang Ronggui to contrast with the lack of audience action in Wang Yue's death, and several other similar deaths that occurred around the same time.

Then the incident in China continues to be compared to Wang Yue's death. In December 2012, a five-year-old boy named Yan Zhe received injured wounds from a minibus in Zhejiang province. Despite a request from the boy's mother, other drivers and passers-by refuse to help. He was eventually taken to the hospital but died on the road.

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See also

• Bystander Effect
• Psychopathology of the masses
• Civil courage
• Death of Cristina and Violetta Djeordsevic (Italy)
• Murder of Kitty Genovese (United States)
• Social weakness
• Volunteer dilemma
• Good Samaritan law

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References

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