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First-hand Account from Chengdu

Posted on May 26, 2008

Editor's Note: Tony (Yixing) Zeng, a Canadian student, has graciously allowed us to reprint his email below, originally sent to a friend from an internet cafe in Chengdu just after the first earthquake. Major foreign media have covered this story upside and down, with the American National Public Radio's Robert Siegel and Melissa Block -- who by sheer happenstance had been posted to Chengdu at the time of the quake -- providing some of the most extraordinary coverage. I reprint Tony's email to give readers a first-hand account in English that vividly conveys the sense of being there: Thank...

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