朱令大学同学关系很差# WaterWorld - 未名水世界
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送交者: wuxj 于 March 05, 2002 22:16:14:
I was the roommate of Bei Zhicheng and Cai Quanqing in Beida. I witnessed
the whole thing and was among the numerous people who provided help. I
remembered the names of Xin Li and Dr. Aldis. Li’s website in UCLA is
extremely organized and contains most of the information. All the facts in
Yuan’s long article were pretty much accurate except his/her imagination
about the relationship between the two daughters’ tragedy of Zhu’s family
was never confirmed.
There are quite a few things that are significant in this event: Internet,
telemedicine, medical accident due to the ego of doctor(s) in PUMC, murder,
struggle of a devastated family, etc. In fact, the publicity of this event
made Internet a household name in the early 1995. I know many people in
China who first heard of Internet from this story. People from all over the
country sent letters to Bei and Cai asking for medical help year after this
event. However here I’d like to make some comments from a different point
of view.
The courage and perseverance of Bei when facing challenges and confronting
authorities. In China, no too many people have the guts to consistently
question the opinion of authorities like PUMC with little medical knowledge.
Getting help from Internet was easy comparing to the battles later on
fought with PUMC. Bei showed sound judgment and spirit of independence.
Although he didn’t finish school due to his own choice, I admire him as a
true Beidaer in this regard.
The help from numerous people. Bei was Zhu’s classmate in high school and
they hadn’t been in contact for years by them. Cai at that time was playing
around in Prof Chen Yaosong’s lab as a Sophomore student. He provided the
idea of Internet news groups and all that. 10 people lived in our room at
that time. We were all astonished by Bei’s description of Zhu’s symptom
after his visit to PUMC. Almost all of us were helping in this case. We sat
in front of the dummy terminals in the lab downloading the responses from
the Internet with a connection of 100bytes per second even in the midnight (
that was early 1995) and analyzed those letters in the dorm. With several
thousand responses, the analysis itself was quite a job. I was really moved
by the kind of helping spirit in my room, in the lab and, needlessly to say,
on the Internet. Prof Chen even gave us several hundred RMB to have a
decent meal. What a nice guy! However, Zhu Ling’s friends and classmates in
Tsinghua never contacted us to provide help. I remember I went to Tsinghua
asking for help from her fellow classmates in one weekend when we were
really short of hands. Nobody showed even a slice of interest. On the
contrary, they showed clear distance from this. That kind of coldness hurt
us so much. We never contacted them again. Thallium was all over Zhu Ling’s
drinking glass (as I remembered) in her room. She was clearly poisoned by
people close to her. The prime suspect was her classmate although never
convicted. I still wonder how her roommates and classmates could live with
that! This kind of feeling grew stronger over time as I understand more and
more about humans. I am not really into the debate over the superiority
between Tsinghua and Beida. But I have no doubt that Bedaers, not Peking
University, in a sense, will always be the conscience of China.
Seven years has passed. Now I am sitting in front of my computer in an
office in the Silicon Valley. I have changed a lot. However, I wonder
whether the result would be different should this case happen again in China
today. If some day somebody wants to make a movie or write a book about
this, I would like the book or movie to be about the nature of human beings,
not just about Internet, a murder case, or a medical accident.
I was the roommate of Bei Zhicheng and Cai Quanqing in Beida. I witnessed
the whole thing and was among the numerous people who provided help. I
remembered the names of Xin Li and Dr. Aldis. Li’s website in UCLA is
extremely organized and contains most of the information. All the facts in
Yuan’s long article were pretty much accurate except his/her imagination
about the relationship between the two daughters’ tragedy of Zhu’s family
was never confirmed.
There are quite a few things that are significant in this event: Internet,
telemedicine, medical accident due to the ego of doctor(s) in PUMC, murder,
struggle of a devastated family, etc. In fact, the publicity of this event
made Internet a household name in the early 1995. I know many people in
China who first heard of Internet from this story. People from all over the
country sent letters to Bei and Cai asking for medical help year after this
event. However here I’d like to make some comments from a different point
of view.
The courage and perseverance of Bei when facing challenges and confronting
authorities. In China, no too many people have the guts to consistently
question the opinion of authorities like PUMC with little medical knowledge.
Getting help from Internet was easy comparing to the battles later on
fought with PUMC. Bei showed sound judgment and spirit of independence.
Although he didn’t finish school due to his own choice, I admire him as a
true Beidaer in this regard.
The help from numerous people. Bei was Zhu’s classmate in high school and
they hadn’t been in contact for years by them. Cai at that time was playing
around in Prof Chen Yaosong’s lab as a Sophomore student. He provided the
idea of Internet news groups and all that. 10 people lived in our room at
that time. We were all astonished by Bei’s description of Zhu’s symptom
after his visit to PUMC. Almost all of us were helping in this case. We sat
in front of the dummy terminals in the lab downloading the responses from
the Internet with a connection of 100bytes per second even in the midnight (
that was early 1995) and analyzed those letters in the dorm. With several
thousand responses, the analysis itself was quite a job. I was really moved
by the kind of helping spirit in my room, in the lab and, needlessly to say,
on the Internet. Prof Chen even gave us several hundred RMB to have a
decent meal. What a nice guy! However, Zhu Ling’s friends and classmates in
Tsinghua never contacted us to provide help. I remember I went to Tsinghua
asking for help from her fellow classmates in one weekend when we were
really short of hands. Nobody showed even a slice of interest. On the
contrary, they showed clear distance from this. That kind of coldness hurt
us so much. We never contacted them again. Thallium was all over Zhu Ling’s
drinking glass (as I remembered) in her room. She was clearly poisoned by
people close to her. The prime suspect was her classmate although never
convicted. I still wonder how her roommates and classmates could live with
that! This kind of feeling grew stronger over time as I understand more and
more about humans. I am not really into the debate over the superiority
between Tsinghua and Beida. But I have no doubt that Bedaers, not Peking
University, in a sense, will always be the conscience of China.
Seven years has passed. Now I am sitting in front of my computer in an
office in the Silicon Valley. I have changed a lot. However, I wonder
whether the result would be different should this case happen again in China
today. If some day somebody wants to make a movie or write a book about
this, I would like the book or movie to be about the nature of human beings,
not just about Internet, a murder case, or a medical accident.
