Murder At the Drum Tower

maybe???chiniese people was the most peaceful and calmful persons in the word. long before, the chinese men only have three goals in their all life?????????wife,children,warm bed???. but with the increasingly chase of economic achievement, in contrast with the decresing of traditional culture's influenece, the society has been becoming more and more unequal, and major of them lost faith and direction. then, violence break out.

China is the world's most stressful society?

I bet folks living in the Congo or Darfur would gladly trade places with anyone in China.

If this guy had killed a tourist from any other country before committing suicide, his story would never have made the news - its only because the victim was related to an American athlete at the Olympics that we'er even reading about this.

Depression and suicide, unfortunately, are not news.

Key difference between India and China is this.
On a personal level Indian family and deep rooted religeous stereo types reduces such events from happening in Indian society. I am not saying these things do not happen in India but relatively are less in India than in China where due to cultural revolution their rich spiritual base is almost eroded from Chinese psyche.
More China pursues this mindless development without a proper spiritual base these kind of stress induced incidents cant be avoided. Therein lies the caution for indians - dont leave your spiritual base and go after life in a mechanical way. Stay engaged with family.

Sure there's tons of pressure in China because everything is changing so quickly and everyone wants to reap the rewards of a booming economy. But the rich are getting richer (the government officials) and the poor are still poor, so social tensions will keep on increasing. A plane full of Chinese tourists going abroad does not necessarily reflect the situation in the country as a whole. On the average, everyone is doing better, but for the Chinese, who are always conscious about "saving face", it's never easy to be less well off than your neighbor. Here in Canada it's a bit easier to think that "I can be less well off on my own terms", but in China that's entirely unacceptable. The truth is that most people in China are barely scrapping by by Western standards and millions of university graduates are unemployed or have a job that drives them nuts. Assembly cell phones or toys in a factory isn't necessarily inspiring work. If given the chance to leave China, many of them would take advantage of the opportunity since abroad they are more likely to achieve what they want if they try. In China it's not the case. There aren't enough opportunities for everyone, let alone meaningful jobs for educated graduates.

The -for lack of a better word- interesting part of this story is that Switzerland is a very socialist, with a huge safety net but they also have one of the highest suicide rate in the world. China is experiencing the same while the social net is disappearing and they become more and more a capitalist country. There is no single cause for depression, a state I'd not wish anyone to go through, but concerned families, counseling and daily exercise can help lots.

I wonder how US government responsed to this issus! this piece of information seems not be let out until now. how could it be kept so long?!

I wonder how US government responsed to this issue.

You say US soldiers are losers, but they would put their lives on the line to save yours if that was their job. That way you could spread your cowardly views. You are probably a cowardly immigrant that lives in the US also.

Like the US whose soldiers scrificed their lives for the country, Tang also sacrificed himself for his country so that China can continue to progress and need not bother losers like him. Did I say losers? Yes, losers same as the US soldiers.

I'm glad the Chinese government worries about such things. Unlike the American governmment who don't give a *** about gun totting mass murders that occur at a regular occurance in the US.