Tangshan Earthquake: 30th Anniversary Edition

Author: Qian Gang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Twenty-four thousand people are undoubtedly a tragic whole. They took away the complete vitality and emotions a decade ago, leaving Tangshan with a sense of incompleteness in both appearance and spirit to this day. Everything seems to have vanished, yet everything seems to have been left behind. It is as if the pain of no longer suffering has become a pain of no longer sorrow. The author hopes that the "tragic history" of the Tangshan earthquake will never be drowned out or forgotten.
The Tangshan earthquake of July 28, 1976, is the most tragic page in the four hundred-year history of earthquakes worldwide, causing the death of 240,000 people, 160,000 injuries, and reducing a major industrial city to ruins in an instant. The direct economic losses exceeded 10 billion yuan. The author once rushed to Tangshan to participate in disaster relief efforts and personally experienced the profound suffering of the region, as if it had endured a war, during the earthquake.
Afterward, the author spent ten years tirelessly tracking and interviewing, meticulously compiling and analyzing, using sincere emotions and refined prose to document the full picture of human behavior in the face of natural disasters at that time. The author traced the mysterious facts and phenomena before and after the earthquake, reflecting on the ultimate question of how humans should coexist with nature in the process of modernization.