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From McClatchy Newspapers’ Tim Johnson’s blog:

The Chinese media love to highlight stories that illustrate how violent U.S. society is. Latest case in point: The Amish school shootings in Pennsylvania are all over the newspapers here.

But get this: There was a school shooting in China, and it’s nowhere to be seen in the press. To find it, you have to go here, a website blocked in the Middle Kingdom.

Turns out that two senior Tibetan college officials died in a shooting incident in late September at the Hezuo teacher training college in China’s remote Gansu province. [Full Text]