TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE -A FUNERAL ORATION TO THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISASTER ON JULY 28TH WRITTEN BY QIANGANG TRANSLATED BY WANG ZHENGNIAN Preface by the Translator Do you know some earthquake by undergoing it as a refugee or relief personnel? Do you remember the Tangshan Earthquake happened in Tangshan city, Hebei province, the People’ Republic of China on July 28th, 1976, which murdered 240,000 lives, created more than 1000, 000 heavy wounded people, also uncountable light wounded ones; which smashed 95 percent of the housing areas of the city; which of course was the most serious affecting earthquake in this century. No, in the history of human being; which… A talent Chinese young writer wrote down this reportage at the eve of the tenth anniversary to this grand earthquake, which co…