China’s Poor Eat Crumbs from the Rich Person’s Table

The new Forbes list of China’s wealthiest 100 was splashed across the country’s newspapers this week, led by a 26-year-old woman worth an astonishing US$16.2 billion.

The list sparked admiration from some readers — and disgust from plenty more. Many people see the widening wealth gap in China as something resembling Latin America’s legendary divide betwe…