As fragile as porcelain

Social trust that is built on a foundation of balance and subversive acts will erode when a good Samaritan is rewarded not with thanks, but with a ransom note.

On the morning of Sept 8, a student in Anhui province was bicycling outside her college campus when she spotted an old lady down on the ground, screaming. She stopped to help.

The "granny", as women in their senior years are often addressed in Chinese society, accused her to knocking her down in the first place.