HONG KONG — Grief over a Chinese student who was the third victim killed in the Boston Marathon bombing rippled across her home country on Wednesday, when Internet sites and news reports described and celebrated a young woman whose ambitions for a career in finance were cut harshly short.
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
China Mourns the Death of a Student in Boston BlastHONG KONG — Grief over a Chinese student who was the third victim killed in the Boston Marathon bombing rippled across her home country on Wednesday, when Internet sites and news reports described and celebrated a young woman whose ambitions for a career in finance were cut harshly short. THE LEDE Latest Updates 10:45 PM Possible Suspect Spotted on Surveillance Camera 9:48 PM No Comment on Link Between Letter to Obama and Bombings 6:30 PM Video: How Law Enforcement Officials Use Social Media MORE UPDATES » Multimedia Photographs Investigation Under Way in Boston Interactive Caught in the Blasts at the Boston Marathon SLIDE SHOW: Forensic Photographs From the Blast Sites Related Boston Investigation Moves Into Third Day (April 18, 2013) IHT Rendezvous: Chinese Media Seizes on Death of Promising Student (April 17, 2013) Surgeons Saved Lives, if Not Legs, After Boston Blasts (April 17, 2013) Victims, Ages 8 and 29, Remembered for Kindness and Laughter (April 17, 2013) In Grisly Image, a Father Sees His Son (April 17, 2013) Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Boston University and the Chinese Consulate General in New York have said the victim was a graduate student at the school, but the consulate said her family asked that no personal details be disclosed. But a classmate, a Chinese university official and a state-run newspaper in her home city have said she was Lu Lingzi, who accompanied a friend to watch the marathon from near where the blasts shook the streets. Even without government confirmation that Ms. Lu was killed in the explosion on Monday, Chinese Internet sites filled with mournful messages about a woman whose aspirations took her from a rust-belt hometown, Shenyang, to Beijing and then the United States. Her account on Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging service used by tens of millions of people in China, attracted more than 10,000 messages, mostly of condolence, in the hours after Chinese media reported her death. “You are in heaven now, whe
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