An angry Chinese Internet acquires privilege

This was to be a breakthrough for the Chinese actress with our main role in two films about blockbuster and a long -awaited television drama.

But then, in June, the 35-year-old star crashed as a furore for the exam results more than a decade ago caused a return reaction on the Internet and, after all, an official investigation into its academic record.

The fall was immediate. Her name was cleaned from drama loans, Chang Lichets, and the brands began to speak.

It joins the growing list of people who face intensive control in China because of their privileges, and the authorities have launched investigations to reassure public anger.

In recent months, these viral scandals have suffered from two actresses, a Harvard graduate and a doctor from Beijing’s top: all young women. They were accused of using family ties to gain an unfair advantage.

“There is a privilege every year, but this year there is more than if it is,” says one Weibo user. Another wrote: “I would like to see more such scandals. They really open their eyes.”

Disappointed by the rise in unemployment and delayed economy, more and more young Chinese believe that communications, or Guangans, pay off more than hard work, The study shows.

For example, ours have accused the use of the actress’s mother to enroll in a prestigious dramatic school.

The program, which her mother was present in the 1980s, was for such ethnic Mongolian students as them. But then the old clips from the interview arose, in which she said she did not fulfill her key commitment – she went to study in Norway after graduation, instead of returning to work in the internal Mongolia, as the program requires.

Speculations grew in early June, just as millions of senior high school students were sitting behind a grueling introductory examination of the university called Gaokao – the same exam that took place in our dramatic school in 2008.

Online -Sleuths dug up the lowest points for that year and suspected they were. Whether she went only to a dramatic school from her mom, they asked. It was a serious enough statement that officials eventually entered to clarify that she had a much larger score.

But this was not enough.

Internet scandals are unlikely to be characteristic of China, but they have become so necessary out of wrath, questions or just frustration-in a tight condensational society.

Independent media practically does not exist, leaving much space for uncontrolled speculation and just ordinary rumors to quickly spread through the huge universe on social media in China. And in some cases, users on the Internet conducted their own investigations to check the allegations and reveal violations.

This is exactly how two doctors were identified in April – identified only by their names, Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Dong – at the top of Beijing found themselves in a national storm about allegedly love.

Mr.’s wife wrote a letter to her employer, accusing him that he preferred Mrs. Dong at work because they were in relationships. Among her many allegations was that he eventually cost him work: she said she had left the Seddar patient unattended at the operating table for 40 minutes to protect Ms. Dong during the dispute with the nurse.

It was a shocking episode, but it quickly became much more because the attention went to Ms. Dong. The angry Internet found out that she had finished studying to become a doctor in just four years, compared to the minimum eight years.

They accused her of cheating at the elite program at the most prestigious medical school in China, Beijing -Samuz and the plagiarism of her diploma dissertation.

The reaction was so intense as the National Health Commission was investigating and confirmed by the allegations. Authorities have withdrawn Ms Dong’s license to practice medicine and her degree, hoping to stop the dispute.

Her clinical experience – stretched in different specialties – also came under close attention as well as the political ties of her family. But the officials did not answer these allegations, provoking additional questions regarding the cover.

“There were failures at every turn. There is no way to dig more deeply,” says the young doctor in Tindao, who did not want to share his name.

It is not uncommon for people to use “Guangans” to help her children find a job, she says, but what worries her is “deeply rooted injustice.”

After 11 years to become a resident, as Ms Dong, she says she and her colleagues have never heard of the program that Ms Dong finished: “We were all shocked when we learned about it. Of course, this is not designed for ordinary people.”

This scandal, especially areas in the hyper-compounded China, where doctors work with grueling hours to earn a place in leading hospitals or just hold the work they have.

“Why everything is so unfair,” she asked, repeating the disappointment, which was widespread in the internet comments.

“We work tirelessly, treating patients with maximum care – as if we were their grandchildren. But our lives are much worse than (MS).”

It was this dissatisfaction also caused indignation Graduate Harvard Jurong Luan Jiang in June.

On the same day, the US Federal Judge blocked attention after the graduation ceremony when the US Federal Judge blocked US President Donald Trump’s ban on foreign students at Harvard. When she shared her experience on the Internet, she told about a difficult childhood, carried out “drifting from place to place”, and how much she studied, giving her everything she had.

At first she was applauded for calling for unity in the polarized world – even some Chinese commented, saying that they were touched by her words. But her reports on social media soon annoyed the Chinese Internet, which then began to study her resume and challenged her statement that only hard work led to her success.

Her critics did not sympathize with her problems – they found holes in every story, and when she pushed back, they doubled.

She seemed to be another reminder of the narrowing opportunities that many young Chinese faced.

The path that later brought dismissal, decreased wages and hiring. Millions of graduates try to find a job, get a job with low payment or give up the race.

One Rednote users said she posted on the Internet in anger about these scandals to find out what a few hours later, what the proposal she accepted was withdrawn because the company made a suspension of employment.

“Probably what you were not born with, you have never had in this life,” she wrote.

This anger is not new. For a while, the Chinese government has censored excessive manifestations of celebrities and influential. But there are things that avoid even their careful eye, such as a pair of earrings.

The scandal came behind actress Juan Tian Tian, when the suspicious Internet began to assume that the earrings she recently carried more than $ 2.3 million ($ 320,000; 237 100 pounds).

They started asking how she could afford, and found her father to be a civil servant. Then they learned that he worked in a local self -government in Joan, which suffered a devastating earthquake in 2008.

The controversy arose additional questions about the wealth of the family and the insinuations that they have been revenue from recovery funds after assembly. Authorities denied this and stated that Ms Juan’s earrings made of glass were a cheap copy of a luxury couple.

But not all believe them. “You know what you know,” is said in one comment Weibo with more than 1000 likes. “Did the officials laugh?” Another user asks.

While the Chinese Communist Party is concerned about launching investigations, their quick response seems not enough.

“The loss of public trust did not happen every other day,” the user writes at Rednote. “This is the result of one investigation by another that offends our intelligence, one unresolved incident after the other.”

Public disappointment is delayed when the party tries to fight increasing dissatisfaction. And his message to young people is that they should “eat bitterness”, Chinese phrase for experience, in the pursuit of “national rejuvenation”.

But on the Internet, one of the few places where the Chinese still speak openly, this message seems to be a hollow when people discuss the benefits used by “elites” who are often simply called “they”.

“This is the reason that we have worked so much for three generations and still in misfortune,” the web’s comment said.

Another commentary to Rednote, where no one is accused of, says: “We earn money by one center, while they tell about hundreds of millions – and then they teach us that hard work leads to prosperity and that the work is honorable.”