Aftermath

Judah Grunstein analyzes China's response to the Sichuan earthquake and its awkward embrace of international aid. Fallows gathers first-hand accounts of the tremor.

(Photo: A chair sits between the damaged buildings after yesterday's earthquake May 13, 2008 in Sichuan province, Dujiangyan City, China. A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province May 12, killing at least 10,000 people. The death toll is expected to rise as there is no definite estimate of the number of people trapped under mounds of concrete. By Feng Li/Getty Images.)