“A Tiger-fighter is hard to Find”

After reading “A Tiger-fighter is Hard to Find” I began to wonder about whether or not the story of Wu Song Beats the Tiger was an actual story within Chinese culture, or if the author had created a second story, within “A Tiger -fighter”. I found that the Shen Yu performing arts performs this story and describes the story itself. The version that the Shen Yu performing arts uses, seems similar to the story that we read. I also found that it was interesting that Wang Huping was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The director and others working on the TV series did not seem concerned with the Huping receiving treatment or staying in treatment, they only seemed concerned with finishing their TV series. This made me wonder about how common schizophrenia is in China and how that compares to the United States. I found out that about 40% of the 2.6 million people diagnosed in the United States go untreated, as of 2014, while in China, “an estimated 70% of the 4.8 million with schizophrenia do not receive regular treatment”. While this may seem that more people in China have schizophrenia, we have to keep in mind that as of 2010, China’s population was 1.34 billion compared to the United States’ population of 311.1 million people. I have only really ever thought of mental disorders and mental health here in the United States, and it was interesting to look into mental health and disorders never really thought of mental health in other countries.