The Death of an Overseas Returnee – China News
www.chinahush.com — “At this moment, I think my original decision was made too rashly and I have never expected what had happened afterwards. I would like to thank friends for the advice before everything. The reality of the China’s academic circles: cruel, faithless and heartless, although I overlooked all of these because of my self-righteousness.”
this was already submitted..
How come you voted it up Damjan_D?
I had initially voted it down. But then I changed my vote b/c it still adds to the story that fredster submitted.I meant to come back and tack on an addendum but forgot. There were some new details there about the victims wife and children. We also heard more about what the university had to say. I just thought I'd point it out because the stories were submitted back to back and there seemed to be no recognition of Fredster's story. I would have liked it better, for the sake of this site not looking like a spam magnet, if the story description said "on the heels of fredster's story at echinacities, here is some more information on the case..."
Hey My bad I didn't see Fred's submission.
As always, Key did a great job with this. PH also did a good post on the subject a while back: http://torisefromashes.blogspot.com/2009/10/unfortunately-due-to-illness....
I'm out of touch with this story at this point (it should also be noted that I don't do the translations at eChinacities -- I wish I had the skills of PH, Key and the others routinely doing great work on this front), but saw something at the very end of the ChinaHush post that made me curious. It seems that the only part of his note that was released was that rather epic quote. Do we know why this was the only bit that leaked and how it happened?
Hey, Fredster,
I believe quite a few people have seen the will, because there were articles talking about the contents of the 6-page will/suicide note being made "public". Try as I might, though, I can't find it anywhere, only those handful of sentences everybody talked about.
My guess is that the will was only made public to his friends, classmates and families, namely, those who were knew him when he was still alive.
I also believe the will did not go into detail about his plight at ZJU (except for maybe the small portion I just mentioned), because one of netizens indirectly said, "With this will, you can't really do too much to ZJU." He also said to Tu's wife, "You have already read the one page he wrote to you, and you probably are regretting way you acted when your husband was still living".
I basically inferred the following from the backstabbing Tu's family and his in-laws are doing on the internet: Tu went to work for ZJU, who renegaded on its promise to give him associate professorship. Because of this, it landed his family in financial hardships, especially since they went to Hangzhou, where the cost of living is high and they had a 3-year-old daughter who is about to enter kindergarten (the process of enrollment and cost another source of headache). The hardships put a lot of strain on family relationships. The in-laws and the wife didn't seem too happy with his under-par achievement after coming back to China.
All the causes added together triggered Tu's depression. The rest you know.
Either way, people overseas will think twice as hard now about going back to China. ZJU is really doing itself a disservice.
Thanks for the update+info. We did another article where someone was talking about how the Dr. had sort of forgotten how things are done in China in terms of getting the position, etc. I don't know if this is true or not but I thought that was interesting. The family stuff is really interesting as well.