WHAT THE CHINESE MAN IN THE STREET IS READING: MORE ON THE TRAIN WRECK

THE CHINESE 

TRAIN WRECK 

II 

WHAT 

THE MAN IN THE STREET 

WAS 

READING 

1981 

And now:  In five days, according to the reporting in the New York Times, twenty-six million messages about the Wenzhou train wreck had been posted on the two main Chinese weibos, or microblogs. 

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