Far from the tree?

In the Chinese tradition, when an under-aged person commits a crime, the parents must shoulder some of the blame, at least morally. As the old saying goes: "It is the responsibility of the father when the son has a lapse in upbringing."

What Li Tianyi did - and what he has been accused of this time - are certainly serious mishaps from that perspective.

Had Tianyi been born into an ordinary family, the whole incident would not have become a mini-collision of social classes.