The Dickensian tale of children who had been, in some sense, worked to death, was a chilling and all-too believable allegory for the worst kinds of excess in the Chinese countryside.

• 孩子某种程度上是因工作而死的，他们狄更斯式的故事是对中国农村的极其无法无天的写照，让人寒心且难以置信。