Letters

Wu Ying also a victim

Whether or not Wu Ying is actually guilty of financial fraud, I feel sorry for her. She is really the victim of one of the downsides of China's rapid economic growth. She has been raised in a culture and in an environment where happiness and success are increasingly judged in monetary and material terms.

One point that has been overlooked is that at the time she is supposed to have committed her crimes, she was only a young woman in her mid-twenties. She obviously lacked the experience to operate in the world of underground banking with its enforcers and a culture unfamiliar to most people.