I wrote this story inspired by @dbooster's blog--[The trial of Tokyo Rose]. In the beginning I only had an inpulse to leave my comment on his blog.(Oh, please pardon me for such a wordy comment)As result, it became such a long narrative, so I decided to re-edit and issue it into my blog.
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The tears of red rose!
The trial of Tokyo Rose is really a sad story. Luckily our Tokyo Rose was proved innocent 20 years later.
Here please allow me to speak of a modern-version miserable story about Tokyo Rose. I doubt what time the remale role will be proved innocent.
On sep. 7, 2015，an American teacher was found dead all of sudden in his rent room in China. The Chinese police ruled of murder or suicide and the preliminary judgement was he might die of a heart attack due to lack of autopsy. However, his American family refused to come to China and deal with his funeral.
(The reason is rather ridiculous…but it is so true. ) They claimed that Chinese government was not in good terms with American government, so they were afraid that they would also have the life risks if going to China. And the American consulate in China adviced them not to go to China since they wouldn't be able to help American citizens in case of any accident in China.
More miserably, his Chinese training school also refused to deal with his funeral without his American family's arrival in China.
At this time our poor female character need to come on the stage! She was nobody but the deceased's Chinese wife. In fact, it had only been 14 months since they registered for marriage in China. God knows only the whole 15 months after her American husband came to China, his life came to an end so suddenly! As a result, his American family demanded that his Chinese wife deal with his funeral lonely in China but refusing to offer any financial aid. Another cruel truth is his Chinese wife wasn't admitted to enter US. It is all due to the horrible ignorance on the American visa rule. She had mistakenly applied to American tourist visa, instead of American immigrant/marriage visa twice, and she was denied twice during the marriage. Now her American husband had been dead, which meant that she lost the chance of applying for American visa forever. She was from the low,poor grass-root class in China. As is known to all, getting American visa is just the privilege of the wealthy class from all the Third World countries. US is just their dream! Now all her lifelong dreams collapsed all of sudden. A bolt from the blue!
She only had one wish: her American husband must have a decent funeral. If possible, she even would rather to give up the title of his Chinese wife and not be involved in it. Pray let him bid farewell to this world decently and honourably! He had suffered a lot when he was alive. He deserved being treated respectedly and solemnly since he was one of the best English teachers and he devoted his life to teaching English in China. His Chinese wife was just his first Chinese student. They came to know each other via internet.
At first he had a decent and well-paid job and a family of 4 children, he was a registered pharmacist in US. He even owned his own drug store, being a boss later. Unfortunately his drugstore was spotted by the drug traffickers soon. He had a death threat. If he refused to sell drugs for them, they would kill his kids. He asked for help from the police, nobody would offer help to him. He had no other choice but surrender, which proved to be a domino effect with bad events. 2 years later he was arrested in prison and his pharmacist licence was suspended for good. After he was released from the prison, his wife divorced him and he was jobless. Just at the very moment, fate let him and his future Chinese wife came to know each other online. He told her that he was more heartbroken for not being a pharmacist than being divorced. He was also not young any more, and he could only be engaged in some low blue-collar jobs such as being a worker in a restaurant or gas station. She couldn't help taking pity on him although she might be in a worse situation than him--a poor and old Chinese spinster. For her part, he was such a friendly and kind American! God knows that he was innocent, wronged and forced! He was actually a victim rather than a criminal. He also mentioned that in prison, reading the Tao Te Ching--a book about Chinese Taoism (which has been introduced by @raj808 in his Hive blogs) became his biggest comfort--a kind of philosophy of enantidromia, which helped him have a close affection with China.
She told him that he still had the chance to give full play to his talent--teaching English in Chinese university! But he was reluctant to leave his kids any more and maybe he also didn't believe her completely. As far as she was concerned, it had been ok enough to have the chance to accompany him and learn English from him online. God knows that she worshipped him! She worshipped such a knowledgeable American scholar. What's more, she especially loved the western knight culture and always tried to get rid of the male-dominated Chinese culture. Marrying such a white western scholar was just her childhood dream.
5 years passed. He finally saved an amount of money to fly to China and visit her. Oh, you see, no matter in which country, even in the most developed country such as US, people in the low society all live a not-easy life. Going abroad is just a dream for them, not to mention such a closed country--China. When he got his Chinese tourist visa smoothly, he was excited like a child.
It took the whole 5 years for her to wait for him from online to offline. When she finally met him in the Beijing international airport, her heart beat so fast that it nearly jumped out of her breast. They had a happy time for 5 days in China. They climbed the Great Wall and visited the Ming Tombs(imperial mausoleums of the Ming Dynasty)
in Beijing together. She also led him to visit her hometown and her parents. It was just the first time for her father to see the foreigner in reality. (Her mother once saw some African people during the era of Chairman Mao). All in all, his appearance in the Chinese countryside was definitely a rare scene.
Then in the second year, he flied to China again and taught English in a training school. Her original intention was he taught English in the Chinese university. But if this trainning school would like to accept him, ok, they just accepted it! Moreover, it was the famous New-Oriental training school (which is a famous English training organization similar to Alibaba in China--but both belong to the private institutions). Who knows it just took another domino effect？The training school failed to offer him Chinese work visa, they had to go to HK for getting his marriage visa for 2 years. Whereas, if in the public school such evil and cool kind of behavior couldn't happen. The public school would shoulder the responsibility and take the initiative to pay the death insurance for foreigner teachers/experts, etc. More despicably, his Chinese school unexpectedly told his American family that he taught English illegally in China due to lack of work visa, so there was not any compensation. It was Sheer nonsense! The public Chinese school would absolutely be not like this! Having said so, she never dreamt that this renowned private Chinese school could be so treacherous! Just as Teacher Ryan pointed out on one of his Youtube videos, the trainning school in China was more a business than an education institution. In order not to pay the compensation for death, they were cooking up charges and slandering the deceased brazenly to shift their responsibility by taking advantage of the terrible ignorance about Chinese labor law/rule from his American family. On principle, any employing unit in China is supposed to offer Five-insurance payment for its employee including Chinese citizens and foreigners, not to mention such a large-scale chain English training school and overseas education agency. It was a naked kind of moral decay--losing the baseline of morality and conscience which would severely demage and demonize China's image abroad. Sadly, his Chinese wife became the poor scapegoat!
(Thanks to the American Teacher Ryan Freeman, he potrayed the difference of teaching English between Chinese university and the trainning school in details with a lot of photos on his Youtube video.
Here I highly recommend watching his video to learn about Chinese society and its real situation! On his video Teacher Ryan neither demonized China nor beautify China. His description is so authentic and accurate!)
In fact, just before he passed away, he was invited to teach English in Nanchang Normal University. What a great pity!
All in all, the final result was his poor Chinese wife had to cremate his remains lonely without any support in material and spirit from both China and US, and mailed most of his ash to US silently. He just vanished as if he never came and existed in China...
“I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight”
----from Tagore
His American family blamed all faults on her. His son even cursed her as a greedy evil Chinese woman only for money and American visa. It is just her who cheated/tricked his father to China and made him die in China miserably! She just got nothing and he had down with China and her forever...
God knows when she will be proved innocent! Maybe 20 years later or maybe never...Who knows？
I remember this story. There was a girl on Hive years ago when it was Steemit, she was the woman from your story. She was always posting about the injustice to her husband. Unfortunately, with the current hatred between China and the USA, it may be awhile before anything good can come of the situation.
You wrote:
Absolutely. The problem is not form of government. Communism, capitalism, etc. There are good and bad aspects to any economic system. All of these can be corrupted and usually are, so we rarely see any economic system in its pure form, at least not outside of propaganda. The problem is and always has been classism. The rich subvert and corrupt the government which suppresses the lower classes. This is the tale of humanity.
It is so true! "The rich subvert and corrupt the government which suppresses the lower classes." Trying to climb the top rung of the slippery social ladder from the bottom is a very hard and dangerous thing!
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