A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.
Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou city when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.
She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.
Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of “Righteous and Courageous Role Model”.
It’s complex I guess. There’s a stereotype that doing a good deed in China usually ends up backfiring on the doer of the deed.
Here she died and was praised, but then, the backfire had already taken effect.
We could conclude from this that the only correct way for a Chinese citizen to do a good deed is to die in the process.
Then note that the praise could be not for doing the deed but for saving whatever other forces are at play from having to provide the backfire.
The hard part is determining the shades of truth of all the various aspects here.
