Soon after Obama left China, two other writers, Huang Qi and Tan Tiandun, were sentenced to prison. Their crime was to investigate cases of corruption by local government officials that were linked to the deaths of tens of thousands of students in the Sichuan earthquake of May 2008.
而就在奥巴马离开中国不久，又有两个作者——黄琦（音）和谭天盾（音）都被判入狱。两人身上的罪名则是调查与2008年5月四川大地震数万名学生死亡有关的当地官员腐败问题。